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PRACTICAL 
POINTERS >r PATENTEES 

CONTAINING VALUABLE INFORMATION 

AND ADVICE ON THE SALE 

OF PATENTS 



AN ELUCIDATION OF THE BEST METHODS 
EMPLOYED BY THE MOST SUCCESSFUL IN- 
VENTORS IN HANDLING THEIR INVENTIONS 



By 

F. A. CRESEE, M.E. 



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POTOMAC PUBLISHING COMPANY 
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PREFACE 

The original conception and working out of an 
invention is usually a labor of love on the part of 
the inventor : having perfected his invention in 
every detail, he finds able and skilled counsel 
waiting to prepare and prosecute his application 
for patent before the Patent Office Examiner. 
When the patent is allowed or issued, the paten- 
tee's real work begins — that of turning the patent 
into money. This is the business end of the in- 
ventor's work, which is generally to his interest 
financially to undertake himself, or to have under 
his immediate supervision. 

The object of this little work, based upon the 
experience and observation of the author and 
other successful inventors, is to give the patentee 
such information and advice as will enable him to 
proceed more intelligently, on the most successful 
and economical basis, to realize from his invention. 

The American Government issues annually over 
twenty-five thousand patents ; of these fully nine- 
tenths are offered for sale by their respective 
patentees, who in many cases have no definite 
lines to pursue in negotiating their patents ; many 

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realizino; little or n::h::::: :r: 



-.r.ietency, drift :::to the hands of 



unscrupu.ous pa:ent-5e..:ng ager.ts c:\.y to be 

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T::e nun:erous inquiries :r:n: patentees seeking 
practical, relia:ir, ^n:: up-t:-date infcrn. :: :n as 
to the best anu n. :s: su::rssf:l methods of re- 
alizing :r:n: the ;:r:::n:t :: titeir ingenuity, has 
lei the autn:r. after ate at iheration, to prepare 
and present this v :rk t: the American inventor, 
with a view of supplying a iong-ielt "•ant. with the 
h:^e that it wiii save them many exTrus: e ex- 
;er ntents in handling their patents, and advance 
thent :n the road to success. 

It has been the endeavor of the writer to cover 
brienv every subject that is usually en::untered 
by patentees in disposntg ci tneir uatents. nut 
only in the matter of selling, hut also in the 
equally in::::tant anu perplexing questions of 
arriving at the value of patents, legal forms, sta- 

Realizing that the work may be deheient in 
many respe :ts the ':.:pe that it will zr ve instruc- 
tive, anu the :el e: that it contains n :ny prac- 
tical pointers for patentees is still entert:.n:ed by 

THE AUTHOR. 



CONTENTS 

CHAPTER I. 

DEMAND FOR INVENTIONS OF MERIT. 

PAGE 

Monopoly in Patents — Industrial Progress Based upon 
the Patent System 9-12 

CHAPTER II. 

INCOME FROM INVENTIONS. 

Independence through Successful Invention — Unprofit- 
able Patents — Money in Patents — Business Capacity 
of the Inventor — Inventions as a Poor Man's Oppor- 
tunity to Advance I3~I9 

CHAPTER III. 

SECURING CAPITAL. 

Danger in an Undivided Interest—A Better Plan — 
Form of Agreement — Perfecting Inventions — Exhibit 
of Inventions— To Avoid Being ** Squeezed" — Value 
of Record of Invention — Newspaper Notoriety . . 20-29 

CHAPTER IV. 

HOW TO ARRIVE AT THE VALUE OF A PATENT. 

Pecuniary Value — Commercial Value — Basis for Estima- 
tion — General Rules for Valuation — How Rating for 
Royalty Is Figured— Stock in Stock Companies — 
Prices for Territorial Rights — Valuation Tables . . 30-40 

5 



6 CONTENTS 

CHAPTER V. 

HOW TO CONDUCT THE SALE OF PATENTS. 

PAGE 

Patent-selling Agencies — The Best Selling Agent — In 
Case the Patentee Cannot Undertake the Selling — 
Methods of Selling Patents— About Advertising — 
How to Write an Advertisement — Correspondence as 
a Means of Bringing Patents before Interested Parties 
— How to Correspond with Manufacturers — Circulars 
— Illustrations — About Getting up Circulars — Copies 
of Patents, How to Secure — Uses of Printed Copies — 
First Impressions All-important — Value of Models — 
Working Drawings 41-54 

CHAPTER VI. 

HOW TO CONDUCT THE SALE OF FATENTS. — Confmued. 

Value of Personal Influence — Personal Solicitation Ad- 
visable — Selling Outright — Assigning an Undivided 
Interest — Dividing a Patent into Different Classes of 
Rights — Granting Licenses — Placing upon Royalty — 
Manufacturing and Forming Companies — To Or- 
ganize Stock Companies — Trading as a Last Resort . 55-72 

CHAPTER VII. 

FOREIGN PATENTS. 

Do Foreign Patents Pay ? — Their Selling Value — The 
Introducer — When only Valid Foreign Patents Can 
Be Obtained — The International Convention — Exces- 
sive Taxes on Foreign Patents — Law of Compulsory 
Manufacture — Advice — About Canadian Patents — 
Selling Canadian Patents — Population of Canadian 
Cities 73-86 



CONTENTS 7 

CHAPTER VIII. 

ABSTRACT OF DECISIONS. 

PAGE 

Assignments — Territorial Grants — Licenses — Patent 
Title — Rules of Practice — Assignments — Assignees 
— Grantees — Mortgages — Licensees—Must be Re- 
corded — Conditional Assignments — State Laws on 
Selling Patents 87-99 

CHAPTER IX. 

THE TRANSFER OF PATENT RIGHTS. 

Assignee, Grantee, and Licensee Defined — The Lan- 
guage of Law — Assignment of Entire Interest in 
Letters Patent — Assignment of an Undivided Interest 
— Grant of a Territorial Interest — License; Shop 
Right — License; Non-exclusive, with Royalty — 
License; Exclusive, with Royalty 100-112 

CHAPTER X. 

TABLES AND STATISTICS. 

Map of the United States— Official Census of the United 
States by Counties for 1900 — Population of Cities of 
the United States — Population, Number of Counties, 
Farms, and Families in each State — Table of Occu- 
pations 115-147 



Index 148-152 



PRACTICAL 
POINTERS for PATENTEES 



CHAPTER I 

DEMAND FOR INVENTIONS OF MERIT 

That there is a demand for inventions of merit 
which can be readily disposed of at a reasonable 
profit to the inventor, there can be no doubt. 
There perhaps never was a time in the history of 
our country when the demand for meritorious in- 
ventions was so great as the present. The con- 
veniences of mankind, in all his varied vocations 
and callings, require continual changes and im- 
provements in the apparatuses and implements 
used in order to save time, labor, and expense, 
and to keep pace with the never-ceasing progress 
of civilization. 

At no time in the past has there been so deep 
an interest manifested by the public generally in 
the inventions of our bright-minded men and 
women, and at no time has capital been more 
readily interested and ready to invest in any 

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practical improvement which can offer a fair 
chance of monopoly under the patent laws. 

Business men, capitalists, and manufacturers are 
ever on the alert for new and desirable inventions, 
which will supersede in utility those which are 
already on the market. By purchasing such in- 
ventions, they secure novelties which will not 
only enable them to avoid the keen competi- 
tion and to a great extent monopolize the trade in 
their own respective lines of business, but also to 
make sales more easily, and thus make their busi- 
ness more profitable. 

Every well-informed person knows that a mo- 
nopoly is the desideratum of business men. The 
monopoly or protection of an industry 

Monopoly r j i j 

in afforded by the patent laws is, perhaps. 

Patents. 111-11,. 

the one monopoly that directly benefits 
the world. Were it not for the protection and 
monopoly offered inventors by governments, for 
a certain number of years, to disclose their inven- 
tions, inventors would simply keep them secret, 
or if used at all, would do so only in such a man- 
ner as would prevent the world at large from 
learning of or utilizing it, thus debarring the pub- 
lic as a whole from its benefits. This monopoly in 
patents has had much to do with the material prog- 
ress of the world during the century just ended. 

Anyone having a monopoly of a good trade 
article is assured of a fortune. If capitalists and 



MONOPOLY IN PATENTS II 

manufacturers can secure the control of any new 
invention of merit for their sole use and pur- 
poses, which can be manufactured and sold more 
cheaply than those now on the market, and which 
will perform its work in a quicker and better 
manner than the devices now in use, they will be 
only too willing to pay patentees handsomely for 
patents covering such inventions. 

There are numerous staple articles of com- 
merce whose manufacture is open to all, and 
which every mercantile house in the country is 
handling at a profit, notwithstanding the great 
number engaged in its manufacture and sale in 
every section of the country. Now, if there can 
be supplied some better or cheaper article in any 
line of industry, the firm or person who secures 
the monopoly of its manufacture and sale, simply 
controls the market, and human endurance and 
energy are the only limits to the degree of profits 
such a firm or person can secure from the manu- 
facture and sale of such an article, if adequately 
protected by a valid patent. 

In an official report the Commissioner of 
Patents clearly sets forth that from six to seven 

Industrial ^ig^ths of the entire manufacturing 

Progress capital of the United States is either 

Based on 

the Patent dircctly or indu'ectly based upon pat- 

System. q^^^^ This vast amount of money, 

upward of six thousand millions of dollars, con- 



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tinually employing great armies of people, in 
industries based upon patents of every class, sup- 
plies the country with improved articles of every 
description. It has been well said that, '^ Patents 
and trade go hand in hand." 

The largest and most opulent manufacturers in 
the country will be found to be the heaviest 
owners of patents, developers of inventions, and 
patrons of the Patent Office. While all inven- 
tions are not telegraphs, telephones, sewing-ma- 
chines, or electric lights; nor can all business 
houses be Westinghouses, Hoes, McCormicks, 
Bells, or Edisons, yet all over this country, and 
others as well, there are springing up a great 
number of moderately large growing firms who, 
ever on the alert for success, devise or secure 
control of some valuable patent, by vrhich they 
can successfully invade and control to a certain 
extent particular lines of industry. 

Nearly every leading factory in the world owes 
its commencement and success to the prestige 
and protection afforded by the possession of a 
good and valid patent. 



CHAPTER II 

INCOME FROM INVENTIONS 

It has been aptly said that the products of all the 
gold, silver, and diamond mines in the world would 
not equal in value the annual income of Amer- 
ican inventors. It has been carefully estimated 
that there are at least fifty patents in the United 
States which yield over $1,000,000 annually, some 
300 that yield over one-half million, from 500 to 
800 which bring from $250,000 to $500,000, and be- 
tween 15,000 and 20,000 that bring over $100,000 
annuities. Besides these, there are thousands upon 
thousands of patents which yield yearly more 
profit to their fortunate possessors than could be 
accumulated in a lifetime by a wage-earner. 

There are thousands of patents sold outright 
every year by the patentees of the United States 
Independence for thousands of dollars ; and, to the 

succe^sfiii ^^^^^^y ^ong list of succcssful iuvcnt- 

invention. ors, each year adds many more, who 
have become independent through the proper 
handling of the product of their ingenuity. In- 
deed there can hardly be conceived a quicker way 
for the average person to attain independence and 

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wealth than by inventing something of real worth 
and merit that can be quickly turned into money. 
The inventive field is large, and each invention 
opens up a new field for improvements, and it is 
the '* improver," without question, that reaps the 
greatest benefit from any invention. Owing to the 
ever forward progress of civilization, there is no 
limit to the possible improvements in the sciences, 
arts, and manufactures. 

It must, however, be borne in mind that all 

patents are not remunerative, neither are all gold 

Unprofitable ^^^^s productive of fortuncs, and one 

Patents, niay lose money in patents as well as 
in any other business. There are thousands of 
patents, many having merit no doubt, which have 
never been sufficiently brought before the public 
to test their merits, effect their sale, or manufact-' 
ure ; this in many instances is owing to incom- 
petency, or bad management on the part of the 
patentee or his agents. There are thousands of 
other patents that do not prove remunerative be- 
cause they do not supply a real want, while still 
others are such slight improvements upon exist- 
ing inventions that they necessitate such narrow 
claims, which render the patent of little or no 
value. One has only to look over the weekly 
issue of patents to see many of the last class. 

As before stated, while there are many thou- 
sands of patents that do not pay — and many no 



MONEY IN PATENTS 15 

doubt cause their owners disaster, as is the case 
in any other business or investment ; on the other 
hand, the far greater proportion of patents grant- 
ed are productive of handsome profits, if properly 
managed. 

That the majority of patents taken out prove 
lucrative is evident from the fact that upward 

Money in ^^ ^^^Y ^housand applications for pat- 

Patents. euts and designs are filed each year in 
the United States Patent Office, and upward of 
five hundred are granted and issued each week. 
Probably about one-fifth of these patentees obtain 
their patents with a definite view of manufacturing 
their inventions, and the remainder obtain theirs 
with a view of realizing from the sale of the rights 
to manufacture. 

It may be said, as a general thing, there is more 
money in small inventions than in larger ones, 
from the fact that they can be easily manufactured 
anywhere with but little outlay of capital ; they 
usually fill a general need, and the profit derived 
from their manufacture is large, besides the pat- 
ent is more readily disposed of ; while with larger 
inventions it requires more money and ability in 
handling the patent, and the invention must be un- 
usually promising to justify the erection of a plant 
costing thousands of dollars for its manufacture. 
However, when large and complicated inventions 
do pay, they usually pay well. 



l6 POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 

It must be remembered that the actual cash 
value of a patent is not in the patent itself, but in 

Business the sale or use of the monopoly it af- 

^ofthe^ fords, and the amount realized from 

Inventor, any invention frequently depends upon 
the business capacity of the inventor or his 
agents. Owing to his business ability, one per- 
son may make a fortune out of an unpromising 
improvement, while another, through bad or care- 
less management, will realize little or nothing 
from a brilliant invention. 

Speaking along this line in an official report the 
chief examiner of the Patent Office says : " A pat- 
ent, if it is worth anything, when properly managed, 
is worth and can easily be sold for from $i,ooo 
to $50,000. These remarks only apply to patents 
of ordinary or minor value. They do not include 
such as the telegraph, the planing machine, and 
the rubber patents, which are worth millions each. 
A few cases of the first kind will better illustrate 
my meaning : 

" A man obtained a patent for a slight improve- 
ment in straw cutters, took a model of his inven- 
tion through the Western States, and after a tour 
of eight months returned with §40,000 in cash or 
its equivalent. 

" Another inventor in about fifteen months 
made sales that brought him §60,000, his inven- 
tion being a machine to thrash and clean grain. 



BUSINESS CAPACITY OF THE INVENTOR I'J 

A third obtained a patent for a printing ink, and 
refused $50,000, and finally sold it for about 
$60,000. 

" These are ordinary cases of minor inventions 
embracing no very considerable inventive powers 
and of which hundreds go out from the Patent 
Office every year. Experience shows that the 
most profitable patents are those which contain 
very little real invention, and are to a superficial 
observer of little value." 

Under the writer's personal observation has 
come many instances where inventors have 
secured patents on improvements which to a cas- 
ual observer would appear insignificant, yet 
through shrewd management they have been 
made to yield princely incomes. Among these 
one case worthy of note is that of a young man in 
Pennsylvania who secured a patent on a toy 
game which any person could have thought of, 
but few would have considered worth protecting 
by letters patent. He was offered $1,000 for the 
patent by one manufacturer at the outset which 
he refused, and afterward he placed it on royalty 
with quite a number of large manufacturers 
throughout the country. He receives but one 
cent on each one manufactured, yet his income 
averages over $12,000 a year. Another borrowed 
part of the money with which to obtain a patent 
on a railway tie plate, which was bought by a 



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corporation for $25,000, after having manufact- 
ured it for two years on royalty. And many 
others, who have realized from one to five thou- 
sand dollars on such slight improvements on 
which few would have thought w^orth applying for 
a patent. 

Patentees who w'ould realize any considerable 
amount from their patents must not sit dovvn and 
expect the other fellow to make money out of 
their inventions for them. 

Invention is sometimes called the "genius of 
the poor," and it is a singular fact that there are 

Inventions a greater number of inventions made 

Poor Man's by men and women of limited means 
Opportunity ^^^^ ^^ ^j^^g^ whosc Wealth, education, 

Advance, and Other advantages would seem to 
have especially fitted them for success in a field 
dominated so completely by ^^ brains." This may 
be explained in a measure by the fact that people 
of moderate means are brought into closer con- 
tact with the arts and manufactures, and are 
thus the first to discover and improve their 
defects. 

A self-made millionaire, recently speaking to 
the writer about patents, said: '*I know of • no 
business or vocation requiring so small amount of 
capital, and yielding such immense profits as that 
of invention. Certainly no person of inventive 
genius can employ his time and ingenuity to better 



INCOME FROM INVENTIONS 19 

or more profitable advantage than to invent some- 
thing that is really needed. Many poor men, 
through the art of invention, have risen from 
poverty to reputation, fame, and honor, and taken 
high places among noted men of all times. 

Our moneyed kings may have enriched them- 
selves by stock jobbing, but this precarious 
procedure requires large capital, and the few 
enormous fortunes accumulated are merely the 
monuments marking the graves of thousands of 
foolhardy unfortunates caught in the vortex of 
speculation/* 



CHAPTER III 

SECURING CAPITAL 

It is a curious but well demonstrated fact that 
people who have inventive genius often lack the 
means to carry out their ideas. An inventor who 
has ample means can secure his patent and pro- 
ceed to turn it into money without the necessity 
of being compelled to solicit financial aid from 
anyone. This, unfortunately, is not generally 
the case with inventors ; indeed, many are often 
barely able to stand the expense incident to taking 
out the patent. Patentees laboring under this 
disadvantage are frequently tempted to part with 
a small interest in their patents for the sake of 
securing sufficient funds to carry on the promo- 
tion of their inventions and sale of the patent; and 
in doing this the inexperienced patentee is apt to 
make the fatal mistake of assigning to another an 
undivided interest in his invention. 

Such an assignment may appear well enough on 
the face of it, and many patentees have been mis- 
Danger led, supposing that under the assign- 
Undivided ^^^^ ^^^ proceeds from the patent 
Interest, should be divided pro rata^ according 
to the several interests. This, however, is not 

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the case in such assignments, and joint-owner- 
ship of a patent, or interest therein, does not of 
itself, without an express agreement to that effect, 
make the parties partners. They are merely 
tenants in common, each having the right to 
separately make, use, or sell the invention so 
assigned without liability to account to their co- 
owners for any part of the profits derived from 
the invention through their own efforts. 

In an assignment of an undivided interest, the 
assignee is afforded an opportunity of manufactur- 
ing, using, and selling to others to be used the 
article covered by the patent ; also, to grant ter- 
ritorial grants, such rights being unlimited by the 
terms of the assignment, and it is actually of little 
consequence how small an interest is thus con- 
veyed, the assignee can proceed with the patent 
in much the same way as if he were the sole 
owner ; therefore, whenever it is intended that the 
relation of co-partnership shall exist between the 
patentee and the assignee of an undivided interest, 
and that the profits arising from the invention 
shall be equitable, for their joint benefit, there 
must be an express agreement between them to 
that effect, otherwise the assignee will have a de- 
cided advantage over the inventor, if he is inclined 
to be dishonorable, and there are numerous cases 
on record where patentees have virtually lost their 
patents by such assignments. Patentees should 



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especially guard against strangers who offer to 
purchase an undivided interest in their patents. 

A better procedure to secure means necessary 
for the development, introduction, and sale of an 

A Better invention is to borrow the money from 
Plan. ^ friend contingent on the sale of the 
patent, sell a State or county right, or enter 
into a contract with a party willing to furnish 
the means for a certain proportion of the pro- 
ceeds derived from the invention. Generally 
speaking, it will not be hard to find a party willing 
to advance sufficient means to promote an inven- 
tion which is protected by a patent for a certain 
percentage of the net receipts arising from its 
manufacture, sale, or territorial grants, and the 
patentee will probably find a person among his 
own acquaintances who will not only be glad to 
furnish the means necessary, but also be of value 
to the patentee in realizing from his invention. 
In any case, whatever is agreed upon should be 
put in the form of a contract, or an agreement, 
couched in such terms as will leave no doubt as 
to the understanding between the parties. The 
following form secures both parties, and will be 
suggestive of others : 

Whereas I, Richard Doe, of Philadelphia, County 
of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have 
invented certain new and useful improvements in 



SECURING CAPITAL 23 

Telegraph Keys, for which I have obtained Let- 
ters Patent of the United States, bearing date 

Form of January i, 1901, and number 000,000, 
Agreement. ^^^ whercas John Roe, of Camden, 
County of Camden, and State of New Jersey, 
is desirous of obtaining an interest in the net 
profits arising from the sale or working of the 
said invention covered by the said Letters Patent. 

Now, therefore, this indenture witnesseth, that 
for and in consideration of one dollar by each of 
the parties hereto paid to the other, the receipt of 
which is hereby acknowledged, it is stipulated and 
agreed as follows : 

First, That the said John Roe shall pay all 
moneys necessary to the construction of a suit- 
able model to represent the said invention ; that 
he shall pay all necessary expense in advertising 
and bringing said invention before interested 
parties (and such other clauses as may be deemed 
necessary and agreed upon, such as the expense 
of constructing a working model, or carrying out 
a process, etc.) ; that he shall make diligent effort 
to promote the said invention, its manufacture, 
and sale. 

Second, That the said Richard Doe, sole owner 
of said invention and Letters Patent, in considera- 
tion of the payment of the moneys above men- 
tioned, agrees to pay the said John Roe twenty- 
five per cent, (or other amount agreed upon) of 



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all the net receipts in any manner arising from the 

sale or working of the said Letters Patent, during 

the term for which said patent is granted. 

Witness our hands and seals this tenth day of 

January, a.d. 1901. 

Richard Doe, 

In the presence of : John Roe. 

John Smith, 

Thos. Jones. 

Before filing an application for a patent, the in- 
ventor should see that his invention is fully de- 

Perfecting velopcd and perfect in every detail. 

Inventions. Many invcntors are in such haste to 
get their inventions in some kind of presentable 
shape that they do not give these minor, but 
equally important, details due consideration, and 
consequently often get patents for inventions 
which are so crude and primitive as to be almost 
worthless. However, if the patentee has been so 
hasty in making his application for a patent, he 
should not think of exhibiting it, or presenting it 
to manufacturers or capitalists until he has per- 
fected every detail, as it must be remembered 
those furnishing capital to promote inventions, 
and those who assist inventors in placing their 
inventions on a business basis, are, as a rule, 
neither mechanical nor scientific, and can there- 
fore make no allowances for imperfections or mis- 
takes. 



EXHIBIT OF INVENTIONS 2$ 

When an inventor first exhibits his invention, it 

should be so perfected and put into such practical 

shape that it will need no explanation 

of the of mistakes or excuses that certain 

Invention. r . i i • , « 

portions of the device have not been 
quite perfected, or this or that needs to be done 
in order to accomplish the desired result. Such 
a procedure would be sure to be fatal to the suc- 
cess of the invention. There must be no mis- 
take about the working of a machine, appara- 
tus, or process. It would be far better to spend 
a year or even longer in perfecting the invention 
than to exhibit something that is so imperfect as 
to require a multitude of excuses and promises as 
to future improvements. The first impressions 
of an invention are all-important, and the inven- 
tor should not fail to make every effort to exhibit 
his invention in the best possible shape. 

The patentee who proposes to realize from his 
invention should never let it be known that he is 

in want ; of course, in some cases he 

To Avoid 

being caunot help himself, but he should en- 
'• Squeezed." ^^^y^^ ^q obtain the ncccssary assist- 
ance from his acquaintances, and under no circum- 
stances let those with whom he is trying to deal 
get an insight into his financial condition, as cap- 
italists and others will very often take the advan- 
tage of an inventor when known to be in straitened 
circumstances, and the patentee probably would 



26 POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 

not realize as much from his patent as he other- 
wise could. Therefore, it is advisable in all cases 
for the patentee to manifest no impatience, remain 
silent as to his financial condition, and strive to 
impress those with whom he is dealing that he is 
in no condition to be ^' squeezed." 

Inventors, while working on a complicated ma- 
chine, should not overlook the value and impor- 
Vaiue of ^^^^^^ ^^ keeping a record of the prog- 
Record of ress of the development, illustrating 

Invention. . . , , , . . , , • 

It With sketches, signmg and datmg 
them with each new addition, and, when practical, 
having it witnessed by one or more persons. 
This plan is preferred by many inventors to filing 
a caveat. Such a record v/ill be found very valu- 
able in case of an infringement, as it enables the 
inventor to ascertain the various steps of his in- 
vention, and is a sort of evidence that cannot be 
impeached. Such a record of a complicated in- 
vention, when the inventor has put much time 
and study upon the subject in perfecting it, will 
also be found valuable in effecting sales, and in 
fixing the price of the patent. 

It cannot be denied that at the present time 
there seems to be in many sections of the coun- 

Prejudice ^^^ ^ Strong prejudice against pat- 
against ents, which sometimes makes it difficult 

Patents. ^ ^^ . , . 

to get people sufficiently interested to 
take hold of any patent ; especially is this true 



NEWSPAPER NOTORIETY 2^ 

when the patentee endeavors to sell his patent 
piecemeal ; that is, by county, township, shop, or 
farm rights. No matter how important or valu- 
able the invention may be, there seems to be a 
disposition on the part of the public to look upon 
such rights as a fraud, and to be very cautious 
how they invest in them. 

The public is not wholly to blame for this, as 
in recent years there has been a class of men who 
have canvassed the country with patent rights, 
not caring what representations they made so long 
as they were able to effect a sale ; consequently, 
many people have been lured into purchasing 
patent rights for a small territory which in many 
instances were worthless or not as represented, 
causing them to be more or less skeptical of all 
patents, as well as to bring this manner of selling 
patents generally into ill repute. With manufact- 
urers and capitalists, this prejudice does not ex- 
ist to any great extent, as with them the patent 
rests solely upon its own merits. 

Many inventors overlook the importance of in- 
teresting newspaper men in their inventions. 
Newspaper This is a matter of great consequence 
Notoriety. ^^ ^-j^g inventor in exploiting his in- 
vention, and should be given some attention. 
Newspapers desire items of interest of every de- 
scription, and readers are usually interested in 
brief accounts of any new invention possessing 



28 POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 

novelty or merit ; so that when the inventor once 
gets his invention into the newspapers it is gen- 
erally copied by other papers, with the result that 
the invention gets a large amount of free ad- 
vertising and publicity. These items frequently 
attract the attention of capitalists, manufacturers, 
and others, and at once put the invention in a 
favorable position before the public as could be 
done possibly in no other way — certainly in no 
cheaper way. 

Many of the trade journals and other periodi- 
cals are also open to receive technical descrip- 
tions of inventions of merit concerning industrial 
improvements. Such articles should be written 
in good form, containing not over five hundred or 
a thousand words, and if admitted to this class of 
publications will be of the utmost value and im- 
portance in creating favorable public opinion, and 
in advancing the inventor's interests. 

With hardly an exception, if an invention 
strikes editors favorably and is adjudged to be of 
sufficient interest to form an article of news in 
newspapers, or of sufficient merit to warrant a 
description in the trade papers, it is pretty certain 
to prove a success and bring the inventor large 
returns. 

If the invention is of such a character as to 
strike newspaper men unfavorably, the inventor 
can resort to the advertisement columns : using 



NEWSPAPER NOTORIETY 29 

the large daily papers, or such publications which 
in some way relate to the industry to which the 
patent appertains, and such as have the largest 
circulation among the class of people it is desired 
to reach. See about advertising on page 46. 



CHAPTER IV 

HOW TO ARRIVE AT THE VALUE OF A PATENT 

Most inventors are not concerned so much 
about the fame or honor their inventions will 
bring them, or how much their inventions will 
advance civilization, or build up a nation, or ad- 
minister to the conveniences and pleasures of 
mankind generally, as they are about how much 
it will net them in dollars and cents ; but the 
patentee should not lose sight of the fact that the 
profits are in the exact proportion to the actual 
usefulness of the invention, and its general adapt- 
ability. It is immaterial whether the inventor 
himself intends to deal with the public, or to deal 
with a man or set of men who are afterward to 
deal with the public, the conditions are the same, 
and the profits must ultimately come from the 
sale of the manufactured article. 

It may seem superfluous to say that mere Let- 
ters Patent aside from an invention is of no value, 

Pecuniary though many inventors are under the 
Value. erroneous impression that if an inven- 
tion possesses patentability, it must also necessari- 
ly have pecuniary value. To be of any pecuniary 

30 



COMMERCIAL VALUE 31 

value whatever, the invention must cover some- 
thing for which there is a demand, or for which 
there can be a demand created, for it cannot be 
disputed, that if an invention will not bring in 
money by manufacturing it, it is, in a financial 
sense, worthless ; and the patent thereon is 
therefore worth some sixty or seventy dollars less 
than nothing. 

An invention, to have commercial value, as pre- 
viously stated, must cover something for which 
Commercial there is a demand, or for which there 
Value. ^^^ j^g ^ demand created. It may be 
an entirely new device, or it may be an improve- 
ment upon an existing invention, but in any event 
it must contain a certain degree of utility. In 
rare cases inventors are able to hit upon an in- 
vention in an entirely new field ; for these a 
demand has to be created. For improvements, 
however, as a general thing, the demand already 
exists ; then the important question arises in 
determining the commercial value of the patent. 
" Does the invention in question possess sufficient 
merit to successfully compete with existing de- 
vices of the same class ? " In order to do this, it 
must be of a simpler or cheaper construction, so 
that it can be manufactured and put on the mar- 
ket at a lower figure ; or, it must yield better 
results, work quicker and at less expense, or econ- 
omize power, labor, or time. A patented improve- 



32 POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 

ment upon an article that can be sold more 
cheaply, or one which will yield better results 
than those now selling well on the market, has a 
decided commercial value and can easily be dis- 
posed of at a good price. If the inventor be 
fortunate enough to combine both of these feat- 
ures in his invention, the value is doubled and 
success certain. 

Perhaps one of the hardest questions that con- 
fronts the patentee is how to arrive at a just valu- 

Basisfor ^tion of his patent, and to know just 
Estimation, exactly what he should receive for it. 
This is a very important question, and one which 
should be looked into before undertaking negoti- 
ations. Patentees should not, of course, under- 
value their patents, or accept the first small offer 
made for fear of not receiving another ; at the 
same time, they should not fall into the common 
error of asking a price that cannot be obtained, 
which too frequently precludes all chances of a 
sale. Many business men would rather lose the 
patent than waste their time constantly dickering 
about an unreasonable price. 

Inventors should be reasonable in their demands, 
and consider that the purchaser must have a fair 
share of the profits. He cannot expect to realize 
all there is in the patent himself. Indeed, paten- 
tees usually find that men willing to establish a 
business on the basis of their untried patents will 



GENERAL RULES FOR VALUATION 33 

require the greater bulk of the profits to be de- 
rived from it. 

It is evident that only the most general rules 

for valuation can be given, as each invention must 

be studied and valued strictly upon its 

General ^ ^ 

Rules for own merits. Undoubtedly, the best 
Valuation. ^^^ most practical method of ascer- 
taining the value of any invention which is sus- 
ceptible of being manufactured on a small scale 
is to have a limited quantity of the articles manu- 
factured — say five hundred or a thousand — and 
try the experiment of introducing them in a small 
territory ; that is, in a certain county, city, or 
town, taking great precaution in selecting a person 
who is capable of carrying forward the business 
in a business-like manner. This method demon- 
strates conclusively whether or not the invention 
will meet with success, and with these figures at 
hand the patentee will be prepared to prove, to 
the satisfaction of interested parties, just what the 
patent is really worth. 

This method of procedure not only enables the 
patentee to get a just valuation of his patent, but 
also puts it in a more favorable position to be 
sold ; since the commercial value is known and 
established, it no longer remains an experiment. 
Interested parties can take their calculations from 
these figures, and the patentee can exact a price in 
proportion to the success of the trial experiment. 



34 POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 

In order to thus demonstrate the value of a 
patent, the patentee must possess and advance the 
necessary means to carry it forward, though, if the 
experiment prove at all successful, the profits de- 
rived from the articles sold will in nearly all cases 
more than offset the expense incurred. This is a 
very popular course with inventors, especially in 
handling small inventions, known as novelty or 
specialty patents. 

If the patentee have not the means to success- 
fully demonstrate the value of his patent by 
actual trial, as above outlined, then the next best 
course would be to inquire among reliable manu- 
facturers and ascertain the lowest price for which 
the invention can be manufactured in large quan- 
tities, and the highest price at which it will retail ; 
and then, by carefully studying the market, the 
patentee should be able to estimate the amount of 
competition, cost of selling, probable number of 
sales, interest on the investment, etc., and on 
these figures base the price he should receive for 
the patent, being careful to allow the purchaser 
a liberally fair profit. 

While there are at present over seventy-seven 
million inhabitants in the United States, it is 
scarcely probable that any invention has yet or 
ever will be made that will reach half this number 
of people. With an article of the most general 
adaptability, including both sexes, the inventor 



GENERAL RULES FOR VALUATION 35 

can hardly hope to reach more than a fourth of 
the entire population, though, of course, the inven- 
tion may be subject to regular consumption, so 
that the people reached would naturally purchase 
the article again a number of times during the 
course of a year. 

The statistics in the last chapter are given with 
the view of assisting patentees in determining 
what proportion of the population will likely want 
their inventions, and to enable them to estimate 
prices. In estimating the price to ask for a 
patent, patentees should not conceive and hang 
their hopes upon fabulous prices and immediate 
wealth, which too often dooms ambitious inventors 
to bitter disappointment ; they should rather en- 
deavor to look at their inventions from the pur- 
chaser's stand-point, and try to see it in the light 
in which others view it. It may be well to re- 
member, too, that up to January i, 1901, 790,623 
patents, including re-issues and designs, had been 
granted by the United States, and it is quite 
probable that any one inventor may not have the 
only good thing in the line of patents. 

Many patents are more profitable by being 

placed upon royalty than by any other means, 

and quite often the patent can be placed 

How Rating . ^ ^ ^ 

for Royalty this way when it is not possible to sell 
igure . Q^^J.Jg^^ 3^1- ^ satisfactory price. In de- 
termining what royalty the patentee should receive, 



36 POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 

he should carefully estimate, in connection with the 
probable number of sales, what profit the manu- 
facturer can probably make on each, or a number 
of the articles containing the patented improve- 
ments, and should require about twenty-five per 
cent, of the profits as royalty. Another method 
used by some inventors is to ascertain the price 
at which the article can be retailed, and figure the 
royalty at between one-twentieth and one-tenth 
of the retail price. Either of the above should 
give the approximate figure to ask for exclusive 
royalty contracts. For non-exclusive rights the 
patentee should ask about one-half of that for 
exclusive rights. 

There is another class of patents that can be 

best realized from by organizing the proper kind 

of joint stock companies, and manu- 

stock facturing the invention, the inventor 

Companies. , . . ^ . , 

takmg a certam amount of the stock 
and assigning the patent to the company. The 
patentee should receive between one-fourth and 
one-half of the capital stock in consideration of 
his assigning his patent and rights to the com- 
pany. 

The inventor should see that a good portion of 
the stock is subscribed for and the amount 
actually paid into the treasury of the company 
before making the assignment. As a rule, inven- 
tors' stock is full paid and non-assessable. 



PRICES FOR TERRITORIAL RIGHTS 37 

In calculating the prices for territorial rights, 

the application of the invention to that section 

must be taken into consideration, as 

Prices for ' 

Territorial well as the advancement in manufac- 

Rights. . -r/. 1 . .11 

turmg, etc. If the mvention belongs 
to that class of inventions which may be gener- 
ally adapted in all States alike, such as domestic 
articles and articles of wearing apparel, then the 
population will form a very satisfactory basis for 
valuation. 

There are other inventions, however, that apply 
almost wholly to a certain section of the country, 
while still others apply more to one section than 
to another ; thus, for instance, mechanical con- 
trivances of the higher order, such as writing ma- 
chines, mathematical instruments, etc., the North 
and East are the most valuable ; for mining and 
agricultural implements, etc., the West ; while 
such as the cotton-gin, seeders, and presses apply 
almost wholly to the South. States and coun- 
ties having large cities and large towns are also 
usually more valuable than other States and coun- 
ties of same population. 

The following tables are given as a general 
estimate of the relative value of the different 

Valuation States and divisions in the majority of 

Tables, cascs ; howcvcr, these tables are only 
arbitrary at best, and cannot be applied to all 
classes of inventions satisfactorily, though they 



3^ FCINTERS FOR rATZN 

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700 


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TERRITORIAL RIGHTS 



39 



TABLES FOR ESTIMATING PRICES OF STATE 
RIGHTS— Contmued 



States and 
Territories. 



Delaware 

Maryland 

District of Columbia. . . 

Virginia 

West Virginia 

North Carolina 

South Carolina 

Georgia 

Florida 

S. Atlantic Division. 

Ohio 

Indiana 

Illinois 

Michigan 

Wisconsin 

Minnesota 

Iowa 

Missouri 

North Dakota . 

South Dakota 

Nebraska 

Kansas 

N. Central Division. 



Price as a Whole. 



I, coo $s,ooo $10,000 $15,000 $20,000 



40 
15 
35 

35 
35 
35 
40 

15 



$270 
60 
55 
65 
45 
40 

45 
40 
45 
25 
30 
30 
40 



$485 



75 
200 

175 
150 
150 
200 

75 



?>i,325 
300 

275 
300 
200 
150 
200 

175 
225 
75 
100 
150 
175 



$2,325 



200 
400 
150 
400 
300 
300 
350 
400 
150 



$2,700 
600 
550 
650 
350 
275 
350 
350 
450 
150 
200 
300 
300 



$4,525 



300 
600 
200 
600 
500 
450 
500 
600 
200 



$3^950 

900 
800 
950 
600 
400 
600 
500 
650 
200 
300 
450 
500 



$6,850 



400 
800 
300 
800 
700 
600 
700 
800 
300 



$5,400 

1,100 
1,000 
1,200 
800 
500 
800 
700 
900 
300 
400 
600 
700 



9,000 



40 



POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 



TABLES FOR ESTIMATING PRICES OF STATE 
KlOYiT^—Conimued 



States and 
Territories. 



Price as a Whole. 



$i,ooo $5,000 $10,000 $15,000 $20,000 



Kentucky. 
Tennessee . 
Alabama. . . 
Mississippi. 
Louisiana. . 

Texas 

Oklahoma . 
Arkansas. . 



S. Central Division. . . ■■ 



Montana 

Wyoming. . . . 
Colorado .... 
New Mexico . 

Arizona 

Utah . . 

Idaho 

Washington . . 

Oregon 

California. . . . 



Western Division. 



I 



40 
30 
30 
30 
35 
35 



200 
175 
150 
150 
175 
175 
100 

75 



^230 

15 
20 
40 
15 
15 i 



! 



$1,200 

50 
ICO 

175 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 



375 
350 
300 
300 
300 
300 
200 
150 



$2,275 
100 

350 
100 
100 
100 

75 
100 

125 ! 

450 ' 



600 
Soo 
450 

450 
500 
500 

300 

200 



150 . 

250 • 

550 I 

150 ^ 
150 

ISO I 

100 
150 

200 

700 



700 
700 
600 
600 
700 
700 
40D 

300 



$3»5oo $4>700 



200 
300 
700 
200 
200 
200 
200 
200 
300 
900 



$235 $975 $1,800 $2,750 $3,700 



Grand Total \ $1,600 



$7,600 



t)i5,ooo 



$22,500 $30,000 



CHAPTER V 

HOW TO CONDUCT THE SALE OF PATENTS 

While the inventor may put much hard study 
upon his invention and make many costly experi- 
ments, this part of his work is usually a pleasure ; 
and in securing the patent he invariably has able 
counsel in his attorney with no anxiety on his 
part ; but with the commercial proceeding of sell- I 

ing his patent, which involves the greatest pru- 
dence and care in managing, it is different, and 
here is where the inventor's real work begins if he 
expects to reap the benefit of his invention. jj 

For the benefit of unexperienced patentees it is 

deemed expedient to give a word of warning here 

regarding the host of so-called patent- 

seiiing selling agencies, which under various 
gencies. jj^pQgjj^g titles, coupled with an ap- 
parently honest and straightforward method of 
business, tempt each patentee, upon the issue of 
his patent, to place the same in their hands and 
authorize them to negotiate the sale thereof. 
Their propositions are very attractive and tempt- 
ingly prepared-;^heir offers appear to be " gilt 
edge ** ; their circulars are high-sounding and 

41 



42 POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 

rose-colored ; their contracts are formal looking, 
and drawn up in an impressive way, highly ad- 
vantageous to the patentee ; but it will be noted 
in all cases that they will require the patentee to 
pay down a certain sum under some pretence, — 
such as to cover the cost of advertising the pat- 
ent, to have circulars printed, to secure copies of 
the patent for distribution, to have a cut made il- 
lustrating the invention, or for membership fee, 
and so on, it matters not what, so long as it is an 
advance fee. Many will also agree to sell both 
the United States and Canadian patents, if the 
patentee will file the Canadian application through 
them ; it is evident, however, that this is only a 
scheme to get the patentee to take out the Ca- 
nadian patent through them — they having no 
facilities for disposing of either of the patents. 

The writer is not prepared to say that there are 
no honestly conducted patent-selling agencies, but 
from long experience and observation, has never 
known where a patentee was ever materially bene- 
fited by placing his interests in the hands of 
these concerns, and has yet to learn of them ever 
making a sale solely through their own efforts. 
Very few of these concerns have any facilities 
whatever for selling patents ; all of their time be- 
ing taken up in mailing their weekly circulars to 
inventors immediately upon the publication of the 
Official Gazette^ and working inventors up to the 



SELLING AGENTS 43 

remitting point which usually ends the matter so 
far as they are concerned, unless they believe 
they can get another fee out of the patentee. 

There may be exceptions, but patentees should 
fully satisfy themselves as to the integrity of 
these firms before placing business in their hands, 
as the Assistant Commissioner of Patents in his 
report in the Webberburn case, 8i O. G., 19 K, 
clearly pointed out that the methods of these 
concerns were such as to sell the patentees rather 
than their patents. 

That the patentee himself is the best selling 
agent there can be no doubt, for he is familiar 
The Patentee with the Construction and operation of 

se^iifny* ^^^ invention in every detail, and 

Agent. knows its merits and superior points 
far better than anyone else, besides manufactur- 
ers and others wishing to purchase patents in- 
variably desire to deal with the patentee himself. 
Business men, it may be said as a rule, do not 
think very much of an invention which the inven- 
tor has abandoned to others to negotiate, more- 
over the personal push of the inventor is, in 
nearly all cases, essential to the successful termi- 
nation of a sale. 

Subtract the personal energy and presence of 
the inventor from the successful inventions of the 
past and of to-day, and the chances are that they 
would not have succeeded as they did. It is not 



44 POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 

only a question of material interest, but also of 
enthusiasm and confidence, and each patentee, hav- 
ing but one patent or a set of patents to push, can 
lend thereto that individual attention which in- 
sures good work and success. 

However, if from any reason the patentee is un- 
able to handle his own invention and must engage 
In Case the the scrviccs of an agent or salesman, 

Patentee he should selcct onc from among his 

Cannot 

Undertake own acquamtanccs, in whom he has 
the Selling. (;^Qi^fi(jence. He should if possible get a 
person who has had experience in the line of the 
invention, as such a person would likely under- 
stand it and the trade better than others. It is 
not really necessary that he should have had ex- 
perience in selling patents ; if he is a good talker, 
knows how to approach business men, and thor- 
oughly understands the invention, he will prob- 
ably make money for the inventor and himself. 
The patentee should have him submit all offers of 
value for his consideration, and should not give 
the agent power to sign or collect. The patentee 
should name a reasonable price for the patent, 
allowing the agent a liberal commission upon the 
price, and encouraging the agent by allowing him 
a certain percentage of all he may be able to get 
over and above the price named. This will en- 
courage the agent to w^ork for the highest price 
obtainable. The inventor should make every effort 



METHODS OF SELLING PATENTS 45 

to be able to personally attend to the details of 
selling, and keep the business under his personal 
supervision. 

There are a number of plausible methods to 

which the patentee may resort in disposing of his 

patent without the aid of questionable 

Methods ^ . . ^ 

of Selling selling agents, and it is the purpose of 

Patents. ^^^ following pages and succeeding 
chapter to set forth such methods as have in the 
past proved beneficial to patentees ; those along 
which success have been achieved, and such as 
are employed by the most successful inventors of 
the present time in handling their patents. 

It is true that no definite method or system can 
be given that will apply to all patents alike, as the 
method in each case will depend more or less upon 
the character of the invention, and to the particu- 
lar art to which it belongs ; however, from the 
following pages the patentee should be able to 
judge what particular methods will best apply to 
his individual case, and proceed along these lines. 

There are many patents issued which the paten- 
tees thereof can as successfully dispose of from the 
smallest hamlet in the United States as from New 
York, Chicago, or any of our larger cities, while, 
of course, there are others which only those di- 
rectly connected with the largest and wealthiest 
corporations can hope to dispose of successful- 
ly. The main thing is not to become discour- 



46 POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 

aged or give up until one succeeds in making a 
sale. 

To make the merits and importance of an in- 
vention publicly known is, in many cases, one of 
the best ways of bringing about the 

Advertis- introduction and sale of a patent. If 
*"^' the inventor has a patent on an in- 
vention that manufacturers or others want, and 
can make its merits and superior qualities known 
to them, negotiations will soon follow. There 
is no way for patentees to place themselves in 
communication with prospective investors quite 
equal to an advertisement in the proper medium. 
Here it may be well to state that patentees who 
decide to advertise their patents for sale or other- 
wise should place their advertisements in publica- 
tions of known standing, such as the leading daily 
newspapers. A brief, well-worded advertisement 
in the ^* Business Opportunities *' column of these 
papers bring quick and good results, though, per- 
haps a better class of inquiries may be obtained 
by advertising in the trade journals of the class to 
which the invention relates, and while the trade 
journals may not bring about as many inquiries as 
the dailies, those that answer will be more apt to 
be interested and talk business. Either of the 
above are good mediums, but in advertising 
patents for sale patentees should carefully avoid 
those publications that are published at uncertain 



ABOUT ADVERTISING 47 

intervals, and usually for the express purpose of 
circulating among inventors for various purposes. 
They do not reach the class of people that invest 
in patents. Inventors should know the class of 
people that v/ould be likely to become interested 
in their inventions, and advertise in such mediums 
as have the largest circulation among that class. 

In the construction of an advertisement there 
is often too much waste by using too much 

How to verbiage, too many unnecessary words 
Write an ^^ scntences, and sometimes too much 

Advertise- ' 

ment. display. Prudence in the arrangement, 
and care in editing an advertisement, will save 
much expense. The size of an advertisement of 
this class has really little to do with its pulling 
qualities. 

The statements should be assuming, and at the 
same time truthfr ^6 any deception in an adver- 
tisement is sure to work an injury. There should 
not be more claimed in the advertisement than 
sounds reasonable, even though it be stating facts ; 
if an advertisement sounds unreasonable it will 
not have the desired result. Inventors sometimes 
become so enthusiastic over their inventions that 
they exaggerate unintentionally. A good rule is 
for the inventor to read over the advertisement, 
and ask himself, " If this statement was read by 
me, would I believe it ; would it convince me ? " 
etc. 



48 POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 

Putting one's self in the purchaser's place is 
always one of the best factors in writing good 
advertisements. The inventor should put himself 
in the place of the purchaser of the patent, and 
reason what would induce him to investigate its 
merits ; what would likely cause him to take it 
up, and so on ; he should think and write fully 
along these general lines, incorporate these reasons 
into an advertisement ; then boil it down by cut- 
ting out the unnecessary words and sentences ; 
prune, remodel, and rewrite until he has a brief 
advertisement, clear, concise, and to the point. 

While to advertise, as suggested in the fore- 
going pages, would require a very moderate out- 
lay, and be, perhaps, the better course 

Correspond- ^' ' ^ ^ ' 

enceasa to pursuc : howcvcr, in connection 

Br^ing!ng ^^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^ patentee does not 
Patents f^^i ^^^^ \^^ ^an afford the expense of 

before 

Interested advertising, a very good plan is for 

Parties 

him to secure copies of a number 
of the trade journals of the class to which 
his invention relates, and carefully look over 
the advertisements therein, and select a list of 
such manufacturers as would seem likely to be 
induced to purchase the patent in question, or 
manufacture the article on royalty. In this manner 
the patentee will probably get the best up-to-date 
list obtainable, and it may be set down as a fact, 
with very few exceptions, that if manufacturers 



CORRESPONDENCE 49 

and dealers who make and handle just such arti- 
cles as the patent calls for cannot be interested, 
it is very hard to interest others not engaged in 
such line, except when the invention is large, and 
requires a great deal of capital to work the same. 
To each of the parties of the list thus selected, 
or to a number of them, the inventor should write 
How to ^ well-composed and convincing letter 
Correspond setting forth the invention in its best 

with . . . 

Manufac- light, and statmg just why it would be 
turers. ^^ ^|^^ interest of the parties solicited 
to investigate the same. Some time should be 
spent on this letter before attempting to write it, 
and the writer should weigh well in his own mind 
what would be best to say, and the proper way of 
expressing it. He should be as brief as possible, 
consistent with legibility. The statements should 
be assuming, yet in every respect true. He should 
state in brief terms just what the invention is, 
what it will do, the points and advantages it has, 
and at the same time endeavoring to get the par- 
ties interested so that they will inquire into the 
invention, rather than attempt to come to terms 
in the first letter. 

The letter should be brief and pointed, and 
plainly written upon business-size paper ; and if 
the inventor has a typewriter, or access to one, 
he should use it. If he has printed circulars he 
should send one with his first letter, which will 



50 POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 

enable him to make the letter briefer and more 
business-like. 

In correspondence it is well not to name a 
price until the parties are interested, and first en- 
deavor to get them to make an offer. The pat- 
entee should be patient and should not expect to 
jump right into a bargain at once. If the inven- 
tion is a meritorious one there will be more than 
one of the manufacturers to whom the patentee 
may write, who will become interested, and when 
such a state exists, the patentee can begin to be 
more exacting as to his demands since competition 
has been created between the manufacturers. 

A few dollars invested in circulars will fre- 
quently be found of great value to the patentee if 
he intends to negotiate the sale of his 

Circulars. • , - , . . , 

patent mamly by advertismg and cor- 
respondence, as they will save a great deal of writ- 
ing and explaining as well as appear more busi- 
ness-like and attractive, and may be the means of 
more readily effecting a sale. 

If the patentee can afford the additional ex- 
pense of an illustration, it will greatly increase 

the appearance of the circular, and 

Illustrations. , . ,., , , , 

make it more readily understood and 
interesting. The cut should be neat and set forth 
the invention in its best light. It would be better 
to entrust the procuring of the cut to the printer, 
for he will know just what is wanted and can se- 



CIRCULARS 51 

cure the same at a better price. A sufficient num- 
ber of well printed circulars, with illustration, can 
be obtained of any printer for about $3. 

The circulars should be attractive, convincing, 

and logical ; nicely arranged, and neatly printed 

About ^PO^ good paper. A mistake is often 

Getting up made in sending out trashy-looking 

circulars, poorly printed upon cheap 

paper ; they repel rather than attract, and do not 

have the desired effect. 

The circular should have good head-lines so as 
to attract the attention of its recipient at a glance, 
and his interest should be held by having the 
uses and advantages of the invention well written. 

Many of the pointers suggested in advertising 
and letter-writing will equally apply to the writ- 
ing and getting up of the circulars, and need not 
be treated further here, except that the patentee 
should dwell especially upon the merits of the in- 
vention, its uses, and advantages over like arti- 
cles. This should be done in the most interest- 
ing manner possible, describing it so that its value 
will be fully understood. 

By addressing the Hon. Commissioner of Pat- 
ents, Washington, D. C, patentees may obtain any 

Copies of desired number of copies of their pat- 

How^to' ^^^^ ^y giving the patent number. 

Secure, date of issuc, patentee's name, and the 
title of the invention, and remitting at the rate of 



52 POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 

five cents per copy. The Patent Ofnce does not 
accept postage stamps : money orders, postal 
orders, and checks should be made payable to the 
Commissioner of Patents. 

The office also issues five-cent coupon orders in 
packages of tvrenty at gi per package, or in books 
containing one hundred coupons vrith stubs, bound, 
at $5 per book. One coupon v;:!! procure a printed 
copy of any patent, two coupons a copy of the 
Of:::::! G:iz:tf: — a weekly publication co::::-on:ng 
the claims and one figure of the drawings of all 
patents of that week's issue. 

It vnll be vrell for the patentee to order some 

printed copies of his patent, as aianufacturers and 

others usuallv ask for them if inter- 

Uses of 

Printed estcd. in Order that they aiay examine 

Copies. ' ' 

the patent, or have an expert to ex- 
amine it, to ascertain its validity, :o:vel:y, and 
what protection is really aiiorded by the patent. 
It cann:: be coole:! toot in either case the inven- 
tion v,oll sooTci' a colc-b!o'?ded rigid examination, 
and n:us: stand or fall sile'y upon its merits. If. 
however, the invention ir oi;o:l^T:l to have real 
merit and properly or:oec:ed by the Letters Pat- 
ent, business neo:o:o:::ns wi!l llkeh' begin, and 
the patentee v,oh perhaps r^peedily moke a satisfac- 
tory deal. 

Some inventors use printed copies of their pat- 
ents instead of circulars, but. while thev fullv set 



VALUE OF MODELS 



53 



forth the invention in a technical way, it cannot 
be said that in all cases it is advisable to send 
copies of the patent until called for. Many par- 
ties who become interested in patents are not 
familiar with mechanical drawings and technical 
specifications, and very often do not get a very 
First favorable impression from a copy of the 
'""^ An-°"^ patent ; and it is very important that 
Important, the first impressions should be favor- 
ably created, for upon this much will depend. If 
a party becomes sufficiently interested to fully in- 
vestigate an invention, they are very apt to form 
a favorable opinion of it. 

There is no way of so easily creating a favor- 
able impression and gaining the interest in an in- 
vention as by a neat and perfect work- 
Value ^ . ^ 

of ing model of the mvention. Man never 

Models. jQggg ^]^g child-love for toys, and a 
perfect miniature machine of any description will 
attract more attention than one of full size. With 
a model the inventor has the full and immediate 
attention of his prospective purchasers at once. 
If the patentee, or his agents, intends visiting 
manufacturers, or to sell the patent by territorial 
rights, he will find a model of his invention almost 
indispensable. 

Inventors should be very careful about sending 
models to unknown parties, and should mark the 
number of the patent and their name and address 



54 POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 

upon the model. It should invariably be under- 
stood in advance who is to pay the transportation 
charges, before sending a model with any charges 
to collect. 

While models are very helpful in setting forth 
an invention and making sales, high prices exclude 
many inventors from their use. Model-makers 
usually charge fifty cents per hour for each man 
working upon the model, and market price for the 
material used ; from these figures the inventor 
may make a rough estimate of what a model of 
his invention will cost. 

Working drawings are different from those form- 
ing a part of the patent in that they are more de- 

working tailed, giving the size of each piece and 

Drawings, ^he material of which it is constructed. 
While working drawings are not quite as expen- 
sive as models, they do not show the invention to 
the advantage that models do, and are of little 
value to those who do not understand them. On 
the other hand, working drawings have the advan- 
tage of being easily sent through the mails, and 
can be duplicated at small cost. Manufacturers 
prefer working drawings to models in quoting 
prices on manufacturing the invention in quan- 
tities. 



CHAPTER VI 

HOW TO CONDUCT THE SALE OF PATENTS — 

Continued 

In conducting the sale of patents, the greatest 
difficulty is most frequently experienced in getting 
manufacturers or others sufficiently interested to 
look into the merits and possibilities of the inven- 
tion. If the inventor can get the parties to actu- 
ally consent in their own minds to the proposition 
of taking up the invention, the question of terms 
and conditions can soon be arranged. Until the 
parties solicited can see beyond a doubt that there 
is large profits in it for them, the price of the 
patent is out of the question ; therefore, the first 
step is to demonstrate its merits and commercial 
value, and get the parties thoroughly interested. 

Patentees should not labor under the impres- 
sion that because a patent is offered at a very low 
price that it will be quickly snapped up as a bar- 
gain ; as before stated, if a patent will not bring 
in money by manufacturing and selling the article, 
it is worthless ; and its real value is in exact pro- 
portion to the amount of profits that can be made 
from its manufacture, 

55 



56 POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 

Should the patentee find that his patent has no 
commercial value, it is almost useless to spend 
more time and money in trying to realize anything 
from it ; he had better start again, and endeavor 
to invent something that has value and can be 
sold. 

Inventors should use the full extent of their 

personal influence to spread particulars of their 

inventions as far as possible, for this 

Value of ^ ' 

Personal indirect work is often a leading factor 

n uence. j^ creating a favorable impression that 
frequently results in the adaption of an invention. 

However unacquainted he may be in a business 
way, every patentee can, more or less, in his im- 
mediate neighborhood, consult with merchants, 
friends, and others in the line of his invention, 
who can post him upon the right parties to submit 
the patent to, and the best way to see them about 
it, and perhaps go with him to visit such as might 
be interested in the invention. 

In nearly every case it is more satisfactory for 
the patentee to call on the manufacturers or in- 
terested parties personally whenever it 

Personal " ^ '' 

Solicitation is possiblc for him to do so. This 
Advisable. |^j.jj^gg ^bout a morc satisfactory under- 
standing between them. Many inventors, how- 
ever, prefer opening up communication by cor- 
respondence, and after the parties manifest a 
willingness or desire to look into the invention 



PERSONAL SOLICITATION 57 

more closely, then arrange to visit them person- 
ally. 

Having determined upon a visit, the patentee 
should endeavor to get a friend known by the par- 
ties to go with him to make their acquaintance. 
If the friend cannot go with the patentee, he will 
probably give him a note of introduction. It may 
happen that his friend does not know the parties 
whom the patentee wishes to see, in that event he 
may know of someone who does, to whom he can 
introduce the patentee and who in turn may either 
go with him or arrange to make him known to the 
parties solicited. An introduction, of course, is 
not absolutely necessary, but it invariably has a 
good effect and is generally worth the effort. 

'The patentee should be prepared to make a 
straightforward, business-like presentation of his 
invention by means of a suitable model or draw- 
ings ; carefully explaining its merits and advan- 
tages, showing as clearly as possible just what the 
value of the invention is and what can be made 
out of it, and giving tangible reasons why it would 
be to the interest of the parties solicited to invest 
in the patent. If the patentee is dealing with a 
manufacturer it is well to point out not only the 
possible advantage he may have by securing the 
control of the patent, but also the possible loss 
that his business may suffer by allowing one of his 
competitors to obtain its control. Many busi- 



58 POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 

nesses have been hopelessly crippled by an enter- 
prising firm securing control of a good patent and 
introducing a like article that can be sold cheaper, 
or one that will do its work in a better and more 
satisfactory manner. 

Many inventors prefer to sell their patents out- 
right ; that is, in consideration of a specified sum 
Seiiin Out- ^^ ^loncy the patentee assigns his en- 
right, tire interest in the patent^ in the same 
manner that a person would sell a piece of real es- 
tate. This is a very good method and one of the 
quickest ways for the patentee to turn his inven- 
tion into money, though it must be remembered 
that to sell a patent outright is usually for a very 
much smaller sum than could be realized if han- 
dled by other methods. 

The day for obtaining enormous sums or fort- 
unes from the sale of a patent outright is past ; 
at present to realize any considerable amount, the 
patentee generally has to share in the risks as well 
as the profits, unless the invention is very highly 
developed, and even then he cannot expect to get 
as much out of an outright assignment as he could 
by sharing in the success of the invention com- 
mercially. If, however, the patentee is content to 
take the utmost cash his patent will bring him out- 
right, he is assured of a principal or lump sum, free 
from any chances of the article not selling well 
when placed upon the market. 



SELLING OUTRIGHT 59 

Before signing and delivering the assignment, 
the patentee will, of course, see that he has the 
consideration, or its equivalent, for which the as- 
signment is made. If the transaction is made 
through correspondence he should send the as- 
signment duly executed to the purchaser through 
the bank or express C. O. D. for the amount. 

In a preceding chapter, the dangers and dis- 
advantages of an undivided interest are set forth, 
and it cannot be considered a wise 

Assigning an 

Undivided coursc uudcr any consideration to part 
Interest, ^j^^^ ^^^ undivided interest in the pro- 
prietorship of the patent, unless unusually well 
paid, or there exists an agreement of copartner- 
ship between the patentee and the assignee. By 
such an assignment, no matter how small, the pat- 
entee loses control of his patent. 

Many patents, from the nature of the invention, 

can be subdivided into different classes of rights, 

Dividin a ^^^ ^^^^ class sold or granted sepa- 

Patentinto ratcly as the patentee may choose. 

Different ^, , - . 

Classes of Thus, the patentee of a tire, or other 
*^ ^^* appliances for a bicycle, could license 
one party to make the same for bicycles and 
another for automobiles. In like manner a car- 
coupler could be divided between those who build 
railway equipments and those who build street- 
cars, and so on. 

Goodyear, the inventor of the process of vul- 



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canizing rubber, divided his patent up into many 
different rights, licensing one company for manu- 
facturing rubber combs, licensing another for hose 
pipes, another for shoes, another for clothing, and 
a number of other different rights^ for which each 
company or partner paid a tariff. Lyall, inventor 
of the continuous loom, also divided his patent 
into many different rights ; one company weaving 
carpets, another corsets, another bags, another 
sheeting, etc. 

In every case where the invention covers arti- 
cles not in the same line of manufacture, the pat- 
entee should not fail to divide the rights into dif- 
ferent classes, granting each party only such rights 
as they may be interested in. In this way the 
patentee can quite often double or treble the re- 
ceipts from his invention. 

The patentee may, if he desires, have his ma- 
chines built and require the purchasers to pay him 
a regular annual rental on each machine^ or a tariff 
upon the goods produced, in addition to the price 
of the machine. Companies are sometimes or- 
ganized to manufacture an invention, and employ 
travelling men to place the article on annual 
rental instead of selling. 

Another method is to sell State and county 
rights. This consists of a license whereby the 
patentee, in consideration of a certain sum of 
money paid him, grants unto another person or 



TERRITORIAL RIGHTS 6l 

persons the exclusive right to make and sell the 
invention, and to authorize others to make and 
seiiin b ^^'^ ^^^ Same, within a specified terri- 
Territoriai tory, during the life of the patent. This 
plan of disposing of a patent has often 
been highly profitable, but it must be said that 
these territorial sales have been conducted in such 
a manner in the past, as to bring the whole sys- 
tem of selling patent rights into disrepute, and in 
recent years patentees have found some difficulty 
in making sales in this way, unless the device is 
of unusual great novelty and attraction to house- 
holders or the general public. 

Occasionally, however, there are patents issued 
for meritorious inventions that are susceptible of 
this mode of procedure, and which can be dis- 
posed of to the greatest advantage by territorial 
grants. Such inventions as household novelties 
possessing great merit and utility have been most 
successfully placed upon this plan, but it must be 
remembered that the value of the system rests 
upon its capabilities of effecting sales of the 
manufactured article to a vast proportion of the 
people. 

In selling territorial rights it is a mistake to 
begin with the small places with the idea of work- 
ing the business up and eiBfecting larger sales on 
the basis of the smaller ones ; it is better to shove 
the sales as much as possible in the start, and after 



62 POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 

the more valuable portion of the territory is dis- 
posed of, proceed with the balance until it ceases 
to be profitable. 

Experience teaches that it is usually advisable 
to accept any reasonable offer made for a small 
right, even if it does not come up to the paten- 
tee's estimate of its value, as he has plenty of 
other territory left, and may lose much time and 
money in finding another in the same territory 
willing to pay more ; besides, the purchaser of such 
a right may, by his energy and good judgment, ad- 
vertise the invention in such a way as to greatly 
benefit the patentee in making further sales. 

Some patentees employ good and reliable spe- 
cial agents to travel and dispose of the patent 
rights ; others advertise for and appoint State 
agents to sell their respective county rights. In 
either case these agents expect to make money 
by the operation, and require a liberal proportion 
of the proceeds for their remuneration ; generally 
speaking, they will require about one-third the 
selling price, unless the patentee can show that 
the rights will sell readily, in which case the rating 
can be made lower. 

The patentee may also sell licenses under his 
patent ; that is, in consideration of a certain sum, 

Granting ^^^ patentee licenses a manufacturer 

Licenses, to make the invention at his own 
place of business ; it being a personal privilege 



GRANTING LICENSES 63 

and is not transferable unless its terms so 
state. 

Unless there are a great many manufacturers in 
the line of industry to which the patent relates, 
and unless the invention has real merit so that it 
will be readily adapted by the manufacturers, the 
patentee cannot hope to realize any considerable 
amount from selling shop-rights alone. As a 
general thing, patents for mechanical inventions 
can be disposed of to better advantage by other 
means, or by selling shop-rights in connection 
with other methods ; for example, if the patentee 
was selling his patent by territorial grants, he 
might grant shop-rights in such territory as he 
has not sold ; or if he is placing the patent upon 
non-exclusive royalty contracts, he could grant 
shop-rights in such portions of the territory as he 
does not contemplate using otherwise. 

Some inventions, such as methods or processes, 
as a general rule, have to ultimately be sold by 
licenses. Such patents can be employed most 
profitably by selling licenses, county and State 
rights ; thus, in the case of a method of construct- 
ing fences, the patentee could sell State and 
county rights to parties, who in turn could grant 
farm rights, etc. 

The license and royalty plan is perhaps the best 
and most popular method with inventors for real- 
izing from their inventions. This, in effect, in- 



64 POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 

volves a contract between the patentee and the 
manufacturer, by which the latter in considera- 
tion of a license to manufacture the 

Placing 

upon article covered by the patent, agrees 
°^^ *^* to pay the patentee a certain specified 
sum as royalty for each article manufactured or 
sold bearing the patented improvement. 

Placing a patent on royalty is ordinarily taking 
chances, but if the patentee has full confidence in 
his article selling well, he should by all means take 
royalty in preference to selling the patent in its 
entirety. Many valuable patents are sold by their 
owners for from $i,ooo to $10,000, which yield 
the purchasers, when the article is on the market 
and selling well, as much as $25,000 annually in 
profits. This calls to mind a patent for which at 
the outset was doubtfully offered $3,000, but be- 
fore the negotiations terminated, the patentee suc- 
ceeded in placing it upon exclusive royalty ; this 
was less than four years ago, and since that time 
the manufacturers have paid the patentee over 
$50,000 as royalty, and have recently offered 
$100,000 for the patent. 

In making royalty contracts with parties, the 
patentee should investigate the standing, rating, 
and capabilities of the manufacturer, and, above 
all, should be certain that the parties have the 
right motive in view, and that the contract is so 
drawn that it will fully protect his own interests. 



PLACING UPON ROYALTY 65 

Many patentees have been caught by manufac- 
turers offering large royalties for the sole purpose 
of gaining possession of the patent, that they 
might pigeon-hole it, in order to keep the article 
out of the market, so that the sale of some similar 
article in which they are interested would not be 
interfered with by the introduction of a similar or 
better article, such as the patent anticipates. 

There are others who propose and make royalty 
contracts with patentees with no other object than 
that of making the special tools, patterns, dies, 
etc., for which they charge the patentee an extor- 
tionate price. 

The best and safest way for the patentee to 
guard against having his patent tied up is to bind 
the parties to do certain things in the way of 
pushing the sales, making the necessary tools at 
their own expense, and commencing its manufac- 
ture within a reasonable time, paying an advance 
royalty, or annexing some such condition to the 
agreement by which they will be the loser should 
they fail to push the inventor's interests. 

Unless it cannot be otherwise arranged, the 
patentee should not transfer his rights merely in 
consideration of receiving a certain sum on each 
article sold, as however sterling the character of 
the manufacturer, there would be no certainty of 
the sales being pushed. The patentee should en- 
deavor to get the manufacturer to guarantee that 



66 POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 

the royalties shall amount to at least a certain 
pre-stipulated sum each year, or within a period 
of time, and that such sum shall absolutely be 
paid to him by the manufacturer, irrespective of 
sales. This insures that the manufacturer will be 
obliged to push the sales of the article, and do it 
justice, since if he neglects his duty purposely, or 
from lack of energy, he is out of pocket, and the 
patentee is sure of a certain income, with the addi- 
tion of a possible fortune that unprecedented sales 
may yield him. However, manufacturers are not 
always willing to agree to this condition, unless 
the guaranteed amount is exceedingly reasonable ; 
they will usually simply agree to do their best, 
and if the sales do not reach a certain figure each 
year, the patentee shall have the option of can- 
celling the agreement, and receiving back the 
patent free and clear. 

Royalty licenses can either be exclusive or non- 
exclusive ; that is, with an exclusive contract the 
manufacturer has the exclusive right to manufac- 
ture the article, excluding all others ; non-exclu- 
sive is simply a shop-right, in consideration of 
which the manufacturer agrees to pay the patentee 
or owner of the patent a stipulated price or per- 
centage upon each article made or sold. The 
license can also be exclusive in a certain section, 
county. State, or a number of States, as may be 
agreed upon. 



MANUFACTURING AND FORMING COMPANIES 6^ 

Any number of conditions that may be agreed 
upon may be annexed to and form a part of the 
contract, and such an agreement should be drawn 
up in compliance with the terms and conditions 
agreed upon by a competent attorney, or one 
skilled in matters of this kind. 

If the patentee has a really good invention, 

often he cannot do better than to retain the patent 

Manufactur- and work it himself, in case he has the 

Fofmhig ability to do so. If he cannot conduct 
Companies, the manufacturing alone, he may be 
able to secure a partner with just sufficient funds, 
and equal common sense and business acumen, 
to add the necessary elements to the firm to 
achieve success. 

In some cases, if the patentee does not wish to 
retain the whole patent for his own use, an excel- 
lent plan is to commence the manufacture of the 
invention in a suitable locality, and after the 
business is so far under way as to show progress 
and profit, then sell out the business with license 
under the patent. To illustrate : a gentleman in 
Illinois, having obtained a patent on a farming 
implement, succeeded in interesting a party in his 
own neighborhood to join with him in its manu- 
facture, which soon proved successful and remu- 
nerative, and in a short time he was able to sell 
out his interest in the business to his partner, with 
license under the patent, after which the patentee 



68 POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 

Started its manufacture in a number of places 
elsewhere, and, at the same time, granting licenses 
and selling territory in still other sections, where 
he was unable to work the invention. In this way 
he made a fair fortune from his invention, realiz- 
ing about as much from each business established 
as he could have probably obtained for the entire 
patent if sold outright at first. 

In this manner the patentee, with a valuable 
patent on an article of general usefulness, could 
go on and establish its manufacture in any num- 
ber of places, and sell out with license under the 
patent. If the first experiment is successful, it is 
an easy matter to carry the method out in other 
places, and the business can be readily disposed 
of anywhere, if it can be shown to be on a paying 
basis. 

In recent years many inventors have been 

quite successful in organizing stock companies on 

_ _ . the basis of their patents. This is 

To Organize ^ 

Stock considered one of the best ways for 
^ ^ ' handling patents for large and prom- 
ising inventions, and it is a method that any 
patentee, with ordinary business ability, should 
be able to -carry out successfully, providing his 
invention is of sufficient merit and importance 
to form a suitable basis for a successful stock 
company. 

Many stock companies are incorporated under 



ORGANIZING STOCK COMPANIES 69 

the laws of New Jersey, but it is believed the 
State of West Virginia is also very favorable to 
corporations. The entire expense for incorporat- 
ing a company under the laws of the latter State 
should not exceed $150. The company can be 
incorporated for any amount ; large or small, one 
hundred dollars or five millions, cost and fees 
being the same. The incorporators need not be 
residents of the State. No annual statements 
required. The meetings of the directors can be 
held at any place, and need not be held in the 
State where the charter is granted. 

Before applying for a charter for a corporation 
or stock company, the patentee should mention 
his plan to some of his friends and get five 
persons who will promise to subscribe for one or 
more shares of the stock and act as incorporators 
of the company. 

Next he should secure the services of a relia- 
ble attorney, familiar with corporation laws, to 
prepare the necessary articles of incorporation 
and legal papers. The attorney will advise the 
patentee how to proceed properly in organizing 
his company, and as to the securing of the stock 
certificates, subscription blanks, seal, etc. These, 
including the attorney's fee, should not cost the 
patentee more than $50. 

It is well to have some stationery printed with 
the proposed name of the company and business 



70 POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 

displayed thereon ; and also a prospectus pub- 
lished, setting forth the invention and the plans 
of the company for introducing it, etc. 

Quite often the patentee can find enough idle 
capital in his immediate neighborhood to float a 
good portion of the stock. Capital is more easily 
secured by the formation of a stock company than 
by any other means, as people can subscribe for 
small or large amounts, and they often prove 
good investments. 

In soliciting subscriptions for stock, it is desir- 
able to get as many prominent and influential 
men to buy one or more shares at first to head 
the list— their names will be a great aid in making 
further sales. Ordinarily the promoter only col- 
lects ten per cent, of the amount subscribed, the 
balance being subject to the call of the board of 
directors. 

After it is ascertained that the shares or stock 
are being rapidly subscribed for and selling fully 
up to expectation, the patentee can have the 
incorporators sign the charter application and 
have the attorney file it with the proper State 
authorities. This will cost the patentee about 
$ioo more, for State tax, attorney fees, etc. 

When sufficient stock has been subscribed for, 
a meeting of the stockholders should be called to 
elect directors, and to transact such other busi- 
ness as may be deemed necessary in regard to 



STOCK COMPANIES 71 

locating and building the plant and getting the 
company in shape. 

The patentee should receive about one-half the 
capital stock in consideration of his transferring 
his rights and franchises to the corporation, the 
remainder of the stock is sold for the benefit of 
the company to create a working capital. The 
patentee may sell a portion of his stock, if he 
desires^ but should also retain a good portion of 
it to show his own confidence in the business. 

After the meeting of the stockholders, the 
direction of the business will probably be taken 
out of the hands of the inventor, and the control 
will lie in the board of directors of the company. 
As a rule it is better that the inventor does not 
take an active part in the management of the 
company's affairs, unless he is specially fitted for 
the position. 

If the company is provided with ample capital, 
and if the business manager is a competent man, 
there is little chance of failure if the invention 
has real merit. 

Patentees are sometimes offered securities or 
other property in trade for a patent. It is not 

^ ,. deemed a wise course by most inven- 

Trading -^ 

as a Last tors to cousidcr any proposition for a 

Resort. 

trade, especially in the early life of a 
patent. Only as a last resort, after failing to 
realize from a patent by any other means, is it 



72 POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 

advisable to trade a patent ; and, before finally 
agreeing upon a trade, the patentee should have a 
reputable attorney to look fully into the value 
and title of the property offered. He should also 
insist upon receiving an abstract of title, or a 
title guarantee from a reliable title insurance 
company. 

Unless known to himself, the patentee should 
never engage the services of an attorney or 
broker recommended by the parties offering the 
trade to look into the value and title of the 
property. Inventors should be on the lookout 
for a set of sharpers who make a business of 
offering worthless securities and property in 
exchange for patents. 



II 



CHAPTER VII 

FOREIGN PATENTS 

In view of the fact that many questionable pat- 
ent agents, both in this country and abroad, will 
endeavor to lure the patentee into the idea of tak- 
ing out foreign patents after the issue of the 
United States patent, it is deemed advisable to 
give the reader a few pointers on foreign pat- 
ents. 

The first question that naturally arises in the 
inventor's mind regarding foreign patents, is, 

Do Foreign " ^^^^ ^^^^ P^^ ' " ^^^'^^ ^ P^^^^^ ^^- 

Patents licitor's stand-point, any invention that 
will pay in this country will pay in for- 
eign countries, or at least that would be the gen- 
eral impression formed from their literature and 
letters ; although experience, in nine cases out of 
ten, will answer in the negative, unless the inven- 
tor has an exceptionally meritorious invention 
that is especially adaptable to the needs of a 
certain foreign country, and even if the inventor 
have these qualifications in his invention, unless 
he has some means whereby he can see his way 
clear to introduce and promote his invention in 

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74 POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 

such foreign country, he can hardly expect to 
realize much from his patents. Moreover, in 
many of the foreign countries, the cost of securing 
the patent and the tax thereon are so excessive, 
and the rules regarding the manufacture and 
working so exacting, as to render it almost im- 
possible for anyone not able to expend a large 
amount, to secure and maintain the patent. 

It cannot be denied, on the other hand, that 
many inventors have realized equally as much from 
their foreign patents as from their home patents ; 
but these inventors generally have ample means at 
their command, good business management, and 
able associates abroad to promote their inter- 
ests. Any inventor having these advantages can 
generally succeed with foreign patents ; without 
them it is a futile undertaking. 

Another point sometimes advanced in favor of 
foreign patents is the fact that our export trade 
has grown so in recent years that it is sometimes 
a protection to the American manufacturer to 
have the article patented in the foreign markets ; 
this, however, in nearly all the foreign countries is 
invalidated by their curious laws requiring the 
patent to be worked in that country within a com- 
paratively short time after the patent is granted ; 
England is an exception. 

While the American inventor enjoys the benefit 
of the repute and fame they have justly won by 



FOREIGN PATENTS 75 

their ingenuity and inventive genius, and while 
American inventions are usually held in great favor 
Their Sell- ^^ foreign countnes, it will be found 
ing Value. ^\^^^ [^ jg ^ ygj-y exceptional case indeed 
where he can realize anything like as much for 
any foreign patent as he can from the American 
patent ; especially is this true in England. There 
are many things which govern the price of foreign 
patents which cannot be considered in the brief 
space of this chapter. 

In all the principal European countries, patents 
are granted to the first introducer, whether he be 
The the true inventor or not ; and it is not 
Introducer, ^^i uncommon occurrcncc for persons 
in these countries to manufacture, use, and sell 
American inventions shortly after receiving the 
United States Official Gazette^ which reaches them 
in about ten days after the American patent is 
issued, and from the claims and drawings therein 
published, a person skilled in the arts to which 
the patent appertains very often can gain suffi- 
cient knowledge of the invention to put it into 
practice and secure a patent thereon, thus working 
to invalidate any patent that may be secured there- 
after in such country. 

The United States patent law contains a spe- 
cial provision for the benefit of inventors who de- 
sire to protect their inventions in other countries, 
in that it provides that after the home patent is 



76 POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 

allowed the invention may remain in the secret ar- 
chives of the Patent Office for a period of six 
When Only "^o^^^s, if the patentee so elects ; also 
Valid under the law which went into effect 

Patents 

Can Be January, 1 898, the prior issue of a foreign 
o tamed. ^^^^^^ ^jj^ j^q^- ^^^ affcct the duration 

of the United States patent ; thus, the patentee is 
enabled to arrange for patents in other countries 
in advance of all other persons and before the in- 
vention is published, and if he fails to avail him- 
self of this provision he is debarred from securing 
a valid patent in nearly all the foreign countries 
by what is known as ^* the law of publication/' 
Canada is the principal exception in this case. 
Therefore patentees are advised to pay no atten- 
tion to the frantic efforts of some unscrupulous 
firms and individuals who try to induce them to 
take out foreign patents upon their inventions, 
which they well know, if granted, would not be 
valid, and which would be declared absolutely 
worthless when it was shown that the invention 
had first been patented in the United States. 

No valid patent can be obtained in France, 
Germany, Belgium, or Japan after the issue and 
publication of the United States patent ; nor can 
a valid patent be obtained in Great Britain, Aus- 
tria, Italy, or Mexico after the arrival of the O^- 
cial Gazette and copies of the United States patent 
in these countries, which are mailed at Washing- 



FOREIGN PATENT LAWS 77 

ton on the day the patent is issued, and reaches 
Europe in about ten days. 

By the *^ International Convention for the Pro- 
tection of Industrial Property," entered into by 
Bel2:ium, Brazil, France, Great Britain, 

The Inter- & > > > > 

national Guatemala, Italy, Netherlands, Nor- 
convention. ^^^^ Portugal, San Domingo, Servia, 
Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunis, and the United 
States, patentees of these countries are allowed 
six months from the time their applications were 
originally filed in which to apply for patents in 
any of the other countries named, and one month 
additional is granted where the countries are be- 
yond the sea ; that is, if an American patentee file 
his application in any of the European countries 
just enumerated within seven months after his ap- 
plication is filed in the United States, his foreign 
application will be given the same date as in this 
country, and the patent therefor held valid as 
against any subsequent patent that may have been 
granted to any person for the same invention, and 
also held valid as against the law of publication. 
Seven months from the time the United States 
application is filed is, however, a very close mar- 
gin, as it frequently requires a greater part of this 
period to secure a patent in this country. 

After the United States patent is issued, the 
Government does not exact any additional pay- 
ments, in the nature of taxes or licenses, during the 



jS POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 

whole term for which the patent is granted ; such, 

however, is not the case with foreign patents, as 

Excessive nearly all of them are subject to an 

Taxes on ^j-^^^^al tax. This fact is not alwavs 

Foreign 

Patents, made plain to the inventor contem- 
plating foreign patents by his attorneys or agents 
in their brief accounts of foreign patent laws, 
which inventors usually accept as their guide. 

A British patent^ at the expiration of the fourth 
year, is subject to a tax of $25, vrhich amount 
will be increased $5 each succeeding year as long 
as the patent remains in force. There is a tax of 
§20 a year upon the French patent, and upon the 
German patent there is an annual tax commenc- 
ing with $12.50 for the second year, and increasing 
by same amount for each subsequent year there- 
after, making the last year's tax §175, or a tax 
of over $1,300 for the entire fifteen years for which 
the patent is granted. The Belgium patent is sub- 
ject to an annual tax of $5 for the second year, 
and increasing at the rate of §2 each succeeding 
year. In Switzerland, Russia, Italy, Spain, Hun- 
gary, Norway, and Sweden patents are subject to 
an annual tax of various amounts, increasing year 
by year to the end of the term for which the 
patent is granted. 

There are absolutely no conditions annexed to 
the United States patent as to working or other- 
wise, and it remains valid during the term for which 



LAW OF COMPULSORY MANUFACTURE 79 

it was granted, whether it is worked or whether it 
is allowed to sleep. With the exception of Eng- 
Law of land, in all the other principal foreign 
^M^nuflc-^ countries the patent has to be worked 
ture. in order to maintain its validity ; as, in 
the case of Belgium, within one year after its hav- 
ing been commercially worked elsewhere ; within 
one year from the grant of the patent in Denmark, 
Austria, and Hungary ; in Canada, France, Spain, 
Portugal, and Italy, within two years ; and within 
three years in Germany, Switzerland, Norway, 
Sweden, and Japan ; thus, unless the patentee has 
exceptionally good facilities for working or dis- 
posing of his foreign patents, he will hardly be 
able to maintain them. 

Before making application for a patent in any 
foreign country, the inventor should first satisfy 
himself that his invention is adapted 
to the uses and needs of such foreign 
countries in which he contemplates securing a 
patent, and if found to be adaptable in a certain 
country equally as well as the United States, he 
should next ascertain what prospects and means 
he has for realizing from the different patents in 
question, and, lastly, he should not authorize the 
filing of an application until he fully understands 
the legal requirements in reference to the working 
of the invention, the amount of taxes or other 
fees upon the patent, the duration and kind of 



8o POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 

patent, and what protection is really afforded 
under the laws. In some countries the laws are 
such as to render a patent of little value to the 
patentee in protecting his rights. 

Some of the foreign countries have several kinds 
of patents, as, for example, Germany issues a 
special kind of patent, known as the "Gebrauchs- 
muster ** patent, which many attorneys advertise 
to secure at a very low rate, and which inventors 
often understand to be something like the regular 
patent, but upon examining into its nature it will 
be found to be of little, if any, value or protection 
to the American inventor. 



CANADIAN PATENTS 8l 



ABOUT CANADIAN PATENTS 

The geographical nearness of Canada to the 
United States, and the intimate commercial rela- 
tions existing between the two countries, render 
Canada, in one sense, a part of the industrial mar- 
ket of America ; and owing to its liberal patent 
laws, which are based closely upon our own, in- 
ventors generally find it advantageous to protect 
their interests in this country, which can be done 
from time to time by a very small outlay, and thus 
giving the inventor the advantage of disposing of 
his patent or dropping it if not found remunera- 
tive, before expending the total cost of the patent. 

The commercial and manufacturing interests of 
Canada are extensive, increasing yearly, and are 
closely knit with our own. If the invention is not 
protected in Canada, it is sometimes manufactured 
there and sent here without paying royalty to the 
inventor. 

Copies of the ** Rules and Forms of the Cana- 
dian Patent Office '' and '' The Patent Act '* can 
be obtained upon application to the Hon. Com- 
missioner of Patents, Ottawa, Canada. Section 8 
of the Patent Act, revised May, 1898, provides : 

** Any inventor who elects to obtain a patent for 
his invention in a foreign country before obtaining 
a patent for the same invention in Canada, may 



82 POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 

obtain a patent in Canada, if the same be applied 
for within one year from the date of the issue of 
the first foreign patent for such invention ; and, 

"If within three months after the date of the 
issue of a foreign patent, the' inventor give notice 
to the Commissioner of his invention to apply for 
a patent in Canada for such invention, then no 
other person having commenced to manufacture 
the same device in Canada during such period of 
one year, shall be entitled to continue the man- 
ufacture of the same after the inventor has ob- 
tained a patent therefor in Canada, without the 
consent or allowance of the inventor ; and, 

" Under any circumstances, if a foreign patent 
exists, the Canadian patent shall expire at the 
earliest date at which any foreign patent for the 
same invention expires." 

Under the section just cited the patentee has 
three months, after the issue of his patent, within 
which to protect his interests in Canada, If 
within these three months he has not suflBciently 
demonstrated the commercial value of his home 
patent, and the advisability of taking out a Cana- 
dian patent, he is advised to give notice to the 
Commissioner of Patents, Ottawa, of his intention 
of doing so, which will fully protect his interests 
for one year, as under the above provision ; and 
if the patentee fail to give this formal notice, he 
cannot obtain redress from any person who has 



CANADIAN PATENTS S^ 

commenced to manufacture his invention in Can- 
ada during the year. 

There is also an advantage sometimes in giving 
this formal notice within three months and delay- 
ing the grant of the patent for one year, as the 
patentee is allowed to import the patented article 
into Canada during one year only, after the grant 
of the Canadian patent. 

The construction or manufacturing of the inven- 
tion in Canada must be commenced within two 
years from the date of the patent, and continu- 
ously carried on from that time, though the ex- 
tension of this time may be secured upon timely 
application to the Commissioner, giving any good 
and proper reason. The time for importation is 
also sometimes extended upon proper application. 

Canadian patents are granted originally for a 
term of eighteen years, the Government fee being 
$60 for the eighteen years, but at the election of 
the patentee this fee may be divided into three 
payments of $20 each, as follows : ^20 at the time 
of the grant, $20 at the expiration of the sixth 
year, if the owner desires to keep the patent alive, 
if not he can allow the patent to become forfeited ; 
and at the end of the twelfth year, if it is still de- 
sired to maintain the patent, the remaining fee of 
$20 may be paid. If the patentee in the mean- 
time assigns his patent, the assignee will pay the 
required government fees at the end of the sixth 



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and twelfth years, if it is desired to maintain its 
validity. 

The Canadian patent covers and affords full 
protection in the following provinces : 



Provinces. 



British Columbia. . . . . 

Manitoba , 

New Brunswick 

Nova Scotia 

Ontario 

Quebec 

Prince Edward Island 

Total , 



Area, 
Square Miles. 



383,300 

73,956 

28,200 

20,600 

222,000 

347,350 

2,000 



1,068,406 



Population, 

1891. 



98,173 
187,926 
321,270 

450.523 
2,114,476 

1,488,586 
109,088 



4,770,041 



In selling Canadian patents, the patentee will 

proceed in much the same way as in the United 

States, though he cannot expect, nor 

Canadian should he ask, morc than about one- 

Patents. ^j^jj.^ ^g ^luch for the Canadian patent 

as he receives, or expects, from the United States 
patent. Patents are not as readily sold in Canada 
as here, but if the inventor has a useful invention 
of merit, which is being manufactured profitably 
in the United States, he will have no trouble in 
disposing of his Canadian patent at a satisfactory 
price. 



SELLING CANADIAN PATENTS 85 

It is in nearly all cases advisable for the in- 
ventor to first put his invention upon the market in 
the United States before trying to realize from 
his Canadian interests, as it will be found difficult 
to interest Canadian capital in a patent that has 
not been first put into practice here ; and if the 
patentee be able to dispose of his Canadian patent 
at all, it is usually for a very insignificant sum ; 
whereas, on the other hand, if the patentee fully 
protects his interests there, and proceeds to put 
the invention upon the home market, he will not 
only be able to present his Canadian patent in a 
more favorable and forcible way by proving its 
commercial value, but he will undoubtedly get 
better offers, and realize full value for his Canadian 
interests, in exact proportion to the success of 
his invention in the United States. 



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POPULATION OF 
CANADIAN CITIES 



{^Compiled from the Census of iSgi) 



Montreal 216,650 

Toronto 181,220 

Quebec 63,090 

Hamilton 48,930 

Ottawa. 44, 154 

St. John 39*179 

Halifax 38,556 

London 3i>9i7 

Winnipeg 25,642 

Kingston 19,264 

Victoria, B. C 16,841 

VancoHver, B. C 13,685 

St. Henri I3,4i5 

Brantford 12,753 

Charlotteto\\Ti 1 1,374 

Hull 11,265 

Guelph io» 539 

St. Thomas 10,370 

Windsor 10,322 

Sherbrooke 10, 1 10 

Belleville 9,914 

l^eterboro ...... 9,717 

Stratford 9,501 

St. Cunegonde 9,293 



St. Catharines 9, 17° 

Chatham, Ont 9,052 

Brockville 8, 793 

Moncton 8,765 

Woodstock, Ont 8,612 

Trois Rivieres 8,334 

Gait 7,535 

Owen Sound 7>497 

Berlin 7,425 

Levis 7,301 

Cornwell 6,805 

St. Hyacinthe , . . .... 7,016 

Sernia 6, 693 

Sorel , 6,669 

New Westminster, . . . 6,641 

Fredericton 6,502 

Dartmouth, N. S 6,249 

Yarmouth 6.089 

Lindsay c. . 6,081 

Barrie 5,550 

Valleyfield 5,516 

Truro 5,102 

Port Hope 5,040 



CHAPTER VIII 

ABSTRACT OF DECISIONS 

The following digest will be found to contain 
much useful information for the patentee, it being 
a carefully selected list of decisions affecting 
assignments, territorial grants, licenses. State 
laws, etc.; including those rendered by the 
Supreme Court of the United States, the Circuit 
Court of Appeals, State Courts, and of various 
Commissioners of Patents, all of which decisions 
enunciate well-settled and controlling principles 
of Patent Law. 

Assignments of patents are not required to be 
under seal. The statutes simply provide that 
Assign- ^^ every patent, or any interest therein 
ments. shall be assignable in law by an instru- 
ment in writing." (^Gottfried ys. Miller, U. S. S, 
C, Decided Jan, 23^ 1882,) 

A contract assigning a patent and all future 
improvements thereon is enforceable against as- 
signees of such improvements who take notice 
of the contract. ( Westinghouse Air Brake Co, vs. 
Chicago Brake and Mfg. Co.^ 8s F. R., 786.) 

Each co-owner of a patent may use his right 
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88 POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 

without the concurrence of the others and license 
at will. [Washburn 6^ Moen Co. vs. Chicago Wire 
Fence Co., lOp III.^ 7/.) 

Owners of a patent are tenants in common, and 
each, as an incident of his ownership, has the 
right to use the patent or manufacture under it. 
But neither can be compelled by his co-owner to 
join in such use or work, or be liable for the 
losses which may occur, or to account for the 
profits which may arise from such use. {De Witt 
vs. Elmira Nobles Mfg. Co.^ 12 i\^. Y. Spur,, 301.) 

Joint owners of a patent right are not copart- 
ners, and in the absence of any express contract 
each is at liberty to use his moiety as he may 
think fit, without any liability to or accounting to 
the other for profits or losses. {Vose vs. Siitger, 4 
Allen {Mass,), 226 ; vide Pitt vs. Hall, 3 Blatch.^ 
201,) 

Although an assignment of patent is not re- 
corded within three months, it is binding on the 
assignor, and he cannot sell the patent again. 
[Ex parte Waters, Co7n, Dec, i8^Q,p, 42,) 

A verbal license or interest in an invention has 
no effect as against a subsequent assignee without 
notice of such verbal license or interest. [U, S. 
S. C, Gates Iron Works vs. Eraser et al,, 18Q4, C. 
D,, 304) 

An assignment to assign future patents, in con- 
sideration of the assignee's paying the expense of 



ABSTRACT OF DECISIONS 89 

taking them out, is broken by his refusal to pay 
for and take out a particular patent when re- 
quested, and a subsequent assignment to another 
conveys a perfect title. {Buck vs. Timofiy^ 78 Fed. 
Rep,, 4S7) 

Any assignment which does not convey to the 
assignee the entire and unqualified monopoly 
which the patentee holds in the territory speci- 
fied, or an undivided interest in the entire mo- 
nopoly, is a mere license. {Sanford vs. Messer^ 2 

o, a, 470.) 

When a party does license, grant, and convey 
any invention which he may hereafter make, this 
gives only an equitable right to have an assign- 
ment made, and this right may be defeated by 
assignment of the patent to a purchaser for value 
without notice of this equity. {Regan Vapor En- 
gine Co, vs. Pacific Gas Engine Co. (Nineth Cir,\ 
7 U, S., App., 73.) 

A territorial grantee cannot be restrained from 

advertising and selling within his territory, even 

Territorial though the purchascrs may take the 

Grants, patented article outside the vendor's 
territory. {Hatch vs. Hall, 22 Fed, Rep., 438.) 

One who buys patented articles of manufacture 
from an assignee for a specified territory becomes 
possessed of an absolute property in such articles, 
unrestricted in time or place. {U, S, S. C, Keller 
et al, vs. Standard Folding Bed Co., 71 O, G., 431-) 



90 POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 

The sale of a patented machine by one author- 
ized to sell, conveys the whole ownership to the 
purchaser, who may sell it again to another. 
[Morgan Envelope Co, vs. Albany Perforated Wrap- 
ping Paper Co., i§2 U, S., 42J,) 

Every person who pays the patentee for a 

license to use his process becomes the owner of 

the product, and may sell it to whom 

Licenses. 

he pleases, or apply it to any purpose, 
unless he binds himself by covenants to restrict 
his rights of making and vending certain articles 
that may interfere with the special business of 
some other licensee. {MeL JVas/iing Machine Co, 
vs. Earl, 2 EisJi., 203 j 2 Wall., Jr,, 2jo.) 

A license is not forfeitable for non-payment of 
royalties in the absence of express provisions to 
that effect. {Wagner Typewriter Co, vs. Watkifis, 
84 Fed, Rep,, 57 ; 1898) 

A shop right is a personal license and is not 
assignable. {Gibbs vs. Hoefner, ig Fed. Rep,, 323; 
22 Blatch., 36.) 

A license to a person to use an invention only 
*^ at his own establishment '* does not authorize a 
use at an establishment owned by him and others. 
{Rubber Co, vs. Goodyear, p Wallace, 788.) 

A license is not transferable unless its terms 
so state. (Olmer vs. Runiford Chemical Co,, lop 
U. S., 75-) 

A license merely to make and not to sell does 



ABSTRACT OF DECISIONS 91 

not impair the patent owner's right to sue for in- 
fringement outside of the license ; and the pur- 
chaser of the licensee's tools and materials would 
not carry the right to sell the product made there- 
on. {American Graphophone Co, vs. Walcut^ 87 
Fed. Rep., 55^; i8p8 .) 

A license to use a machine carries with it the 
right to repair the machine, and replace worn 
parts until the essential original parts of the ma- 
chine have disappeared. {Robinson on Patents, 
Sec, p2/,) 

A lawful sale of a patented article by a patentee 
or grantee, within his own territory, carries with 
it the right to use such article throughout the 
whole United States. {Adams vs. Burke, 5 O. G., 
118 ; Hobbie vs. Smith, 27 Fed, Rep,, dj6,) 

When an applicant in certain instruments as- 
signed his right, title, and interest in an inven- 
tion, retaining for himself the exclusive right to 
employ the invention in the manufacture of a cer- 
tain class of machines. Held, that such instru- 
ments do not convey the entire interest in the in- 
vention or any undivided part thereof, and they 
are construed to be nothing more than licenses. 
(Ex parte Rosback, 8g O. G,, 70^, Decided Oct. 5, 
1899.) 

An implied license to use a patented improve- 
ment without payment of any royalties during the 
continuance of employment of the inventor, and 



92 POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 

thereafter, on the same terms and royalties fixed 
for other parties, is shown where the inventor ap- 
pUes the patent to his employer's work without 
any agreement for compensation for its use further 
than a notice that he w^ould require pay after his 
employment terminated. (Keys vs. Eureka ConsoL 
Min. Co,, U. S. S. C, is<9 U. S., ijo.) 

A breach of a covenant in a license does not 
work a forfeiture of the license unless it is so ex- 
pressly agreed. {Co7isoL Middlings Purifier Co, 
vs. Wolf, 37 O. G,, 567) 

A patent right, like any other personal property, 

is understood by Congress to vest in the executors 

and administrators of the patentee, if 

Patent Title. , ,. . ^ , . 

he dies without having assigned it. 
{Shaw Relief Valve Co, vs. City of New Bedford^ 
igth Fed, Rep,, 7s^) 

A patent to a dead man at the time of its grant 
is not void for the want of a grantee, but vests in 
his heirs or assigns. (Z7. S, S, C, De La Verg?ie 
Ref. Machi7ie Co. vs. Featherstone, i8gj, C D., 181,) 

A court of equity may direct a sale of an inven- 
tor's interest in his patent to satisfy a judgment 
against him, and will require the patentee to as- 
sign as provided in Rev. Stat., Sec. 4898, and if he 
refuses, will appoint a trustee to make the assign- 
ment. {Murray vs. Ager^ 20 O. C, 1311,) 

A patent right cannot be seized and sold on ex- 
ecution. {Carver vs. Feck, 131 Mass., 2pi,) 



RULES OF PRACTICE 93 

A receiver cannot, under his general powers, 
convey the legal title to a patent {Adams vs. 
Howard^ 23 Blatch.^ 2/)^ but a court may compel 
an insolvent to assign his patent to a trustee or 
receiver. {Pacific Bank vs. Robinson^ 20 O. C, 
1314 ; Murray vs. Ager^ 20 O. 6^., 1311^) 

A patentee who assigns his patent cannot, 
when sued for infringement, contest the validity 
thereof. {Griffith vs. Shaw^ Sg Fed. Rep.^ 313^ 

RULES OF PRACTICE 

The following from the *' Rules of Practice in 
the United States Patent Office" may be perused 
with interest to the patentee ; a copy of which, 
together with a copy of the "Patent Laws," will 
be mailed free to any person upon addressing the 
Hon. Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C, 
requesting the same ; these being the only books 
or pamphlets published by the Office for gratu- 
itous distribution. 

Every patent or any interest therein shall be 
assignable in law by an instrument in writing ; 

Assign- ^^d the patentee or his assigns or legal 

ments. representatives may, in like manner, 
grant and convey an exclusive right under the 
patent to the whole or any specified part of the 
United States. Interests in patents may be vested 
in assignees, in grantees of exclusive sectional 
rights, in mortgagees, and in licensees. 



94 POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 

An assignee is a transferee of the whole inter- 
est of the original patent or of an undivided part 
of such whole interest, extending to 
ssignees. ^^^^^ portion of the United States. 
The assignment must be written or printed and 
duly signed. 

A grantee acquires by the grant the exclusive 

right under the patent to make and use and to 

grant to others the right to make and 

Grantees. i , • - . , . , 

use, the thmg patented withm and 
throughout some specified part of the United 
States, excluding the patentee therefrom. The 
grant must be written or printed and be duly 
signed. 

A mortgage must be written or 

Mortgages. • , , j ^ i • j 

prmted and duly signed. 
A licensee takes an interest less than or differ- 
ent from either of the others. A license may be 
oral, written, or printed, and if written 

Licensees. . ,11. , 

or prmted, must be duly signed. 
An assignment, grant, or conveyance of a pat- 
ent will be void as against any subsequent pur- 
Must be chaser or mortgagee for a valuable 
Recorded, consideration without notice unless 
recorded in the Patent Office within three months 
from the date thereof. If any such assignment, 
grant, or conveyance of any patent shall be ac- 
knowledged before any notary public of the several 
States or territories, or the District of Columbia, 



RULES OF PRACTICE 95 

or any commissioner of the United States Circuit 
Court, or before any secretary of legation, or 
consular officer authorized to administer oaths or 
perform notarial acts under Section 1750 of the 
Revised Statutes, the certificate of such acknowl- 
edgment, under the hand and official seal of such 
notary or other officer, shall be prima facie evi- 
dence of the execution of such assignment, grant, 
or conveyance. 

No instrument will be recorded which does not, 
in the judgment of the Commissioner, amount to 
an assignment, grant, mortgage, lien, encum- 
brance, or license, or which does not affect the 
title of the patent or invention to which it re- 
lates. Such instruments should identify the pat- 
ent by date and number; or, if the invention is 
unpatented, the name of the inventor, the serial 
number, and date of the application should be 
stated. 

Assignments which are made conditional on 
the performance of certain stipulations, as the 
Conditional Payment of money, if recorded in the 
Assignments, office, are regarded as absolute assign- 
ments until cancelled v/ith the written consent of 
both parties, or by the decree of a competent 
court. The office has no means for determining 
whether such conditions have been filled. {Jiev. 
^tat., Sec. 4898.) 



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STATE LAWS ON SELLING PATENTS 

In some States, laws have been passed by which 
attempts have been made to regulate or prevent 
the sale of patent rights within their borders, by 
imposing upon patentees or their agents certain 
State restrictions, such as requiring the filing of 
copies of patents, making and filing proofs, tak- 
ing out licenses, procuring certificates, complying 
with forms, or prescribing the terms of a note to 
be given for a patent. 

While it has never been squarely brought be- 
fore the United States Supreme Court, with the 
result that much conflicting legislation has been 
enacted by the different States, it may be said, as 
a general proposition, that a State or municipal- 
ity, through the medium of its Legislature or offi- 
cials, has no constitutional right to make or enforce 
laws which in any way affect or control the trans- 
fer, sale, or other disposition of United States 
Letters Patent ; or to interfere in any manner 
with the patentee going into the open market 
anywhere to sell his rights conferred by the 
patent. 

It is a well-established principle of law that 
Congress has exclusive right and power to legis- 
late on the subjects specially assigned to it by the 
Constitution, while power is delegated to the 
several States to legislate on those subjects not 



STATE LAWS ON SELLING PATENTS 97 

thus expressly placed within the control of Con- 
gress. It would seem clear that there can be no 
State interference with the rights which are inci- 
dent to the grant of Letters Patent and expressly 
conferred thereby. 

Ohio was the first State attempting to place 
restrictions upon the handling of patent rights, 
which, in 1868, passed an act requiring any person, 
before offering for sale a patent right in any 
county, to submit the patent to the Probate Judge 
of the county, and make affidavit before said 
judge that the patent was in force, and that the 
applicant had the right to sell, and also requiring 
that any written obligation taken on the sale of 
such right should bear on its face the words, 
'' Given for a Patent Right." 

The portion of the Ohio statute relating to the 
making and filing proofs was subsequently made 
the law in Illinois, Minnesota, Indiana, Nebraska, 
and Kansas, while the requirement that written 
obligations given for a patent right should bear 
such statement written upon its face was made 
the law in Vermont, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wis- 
consin, New York, Connecticut, and Arkansas. 

In view of the decisions rendered by the Su- 
preme Court of the United States in the cases of 
ex parte Robinson, 2 Bissel, 309, and Webber vs, 
Virginia, 103 U. S., 347 ; 20 O. G., 136, some of 
the States repealed their statutes relating to the 



98 POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 

filing of proofs, while others did not — notably 
Indiana and Kansas, where the statute still re- 
mains in force. 

While the Supreme Court in the above cases 
did not decide the constitutionality of the State 
statutes, it was clearly indicated that property in 
inventions existed by virtue of the laws of Con- 
gress, and that no State had any right to interfere 
with its enjoyment, or to annex conditions to the 
grant, and that the patentee had a right to go into 
the open m.arket anywhere in the United States 
and sell his property. It also established the 
proposition that a State may require the taking 
out of a license for the sale of the manufactured 
article covered by the patent ; and the patentee 
should keep in mind the distinction between sell- 
ing patents, or patent privileges, and the selling of 
goods or manufactured articles, as all who sell 
goods, whether patented or not, must conform 
with the local and State laws relating to same. 

The statute requiring the insertion in written 
obligations of the words, " Given for a Patent 
Right," has been declared unconstitutional by the 
higher State Courts in Illinois, Michigan, Minne- 
sota, and Nebraska, and by the Circuit Courts in 
the southern district of Ohio, and in the district 
of Indiana ; while its validity has been sustained 
by the courts of last resort in New York, Pennsyl- 
vania, Ohio, Indiana, and Kansas. Therefore, the 



STATE LAWS ON SELLING PATENTS 99 

validity of the State statutes on the point referred 
to may be regarded as finally established in 
the last-named States until brought before the 
Supreme Court of the United States, which there 
is every reason for believing will declare the 
statutes unconstitutional. 

LotC. 



CHAPTER IX 

THE TRANSFER OF PAtENT RIGHTS 

It frequently occurs to the patentee that a 
knowledge of the legal requirements of the trans- 
fer of patent rights would save him much time 
and trouble. Patentees should carefully scruti- 
nize all papers offered by the parties in whose 
favor they are drawn, and, if possible, he should 
have his attorney to examine them. 

There are three classes of persons in whom the 
patentee can vest an interest of some kind. They 
are an assignee, a grantee of an exclusive sectional 
right, and a licensee. 

*^ An assignee is one who has transferred to him 
in writing the whole interest in the original pat- 

^ . ent, or any undivided part of such 

Assignee, ' -^ ^ 

Grantee, wholc interest in every portion of the 

and 

Licensee United Statcs. And no one, unless he 
Defined, j^^^ ^^^j^ ^^ interest transferred to 

him, is an assignee. 

" A grantee is one who has transferred in writ- 
ing the exclusive right under the patent, to make 
and use, and to grant to others to make and use, 
the thing patented, within and throughout some 



THE LANGUAGE OF LAW lOI 

specified part or portion of the United States. 
Such right must be an exclusive sectional right, 
excluding the patentee therefrom. 

" A licensee is one who has transferred to him in 
writing, or orally, a less or different interest than 
either the interest in the whole patent, or an un- 
divided part of such whole interest, or an exclu- 
sive sectional interest." (Potter vs. Holland^ i 
Fish^S27.) 

If a man were to give another an orange he 

would simply say, " I give you this orange " ; but 

if the transaction be intrusted to a 

k ne 

Language lawyer to draw up according to the re- 

of Law. 

quirements of law, says the Observer^ 
he would most probably put it in the following 
language : ^* I hereby give, grant, and convey to 
you all my interest, right, title, and advantage of 
and in said orange, together with its rind, skin, 
juice, pulp, and pits, and all right and advantage 
therein with full power to bite, suck, cut, or other- 
wise eat the same or to give the same away, as 
fully and effectually as I, the said A. B., am now 
entitled to cut, bite, or otherwise eat the same, 
or give away the same with or without the rind, 
skin, juice, pulp, or pits ; anything hereinbefore 
or hereafter or in any other deed or deeds, in- 
struments of nature or kind whatsoever to the 
contrary in anywise notwithstanding." 

It is always better and more satisfactory to 



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have assignments, royalty contracts, agreements, 
etc., drawn up specially to accord with the facts, 
details, and covenants of each particular case ; and 
there is no one probably better able to do this 
than the attorney who secured the patent. How- 
ever, if in the case the parties to the transaction 
cannot well delay proceedings to have the papers 
prepared by an attorney, by adhering to the fol- 
lowing forms in any such transactions, both the 
purchaser and seller may rest assured that their 
rights are protected. 

ASSIGNMENT OF ENTIRE INTEREST IN 
LETTERS PATENT 

Whereas, I, Richard Doe, of Columbus, County 
of Franklin, State of Ohio, did obtain Letters 
Patent of the United States for an improvement 
in Typewriting Machines, which Letters Patent 
are numbered 000,000, and bear date January i, 
1901 ; and whereas I am now sole owner of said 
patent, and of all rights under the same ; and 
whereas the Ohio Typewriter Company, of Cin- 
cinnati, County of Hamilton, and State of Ohio, 
is desirous of acquiring an interest in the same : 

Now, therefore, to all whom it may concern, be 
it known, that for and in consideration of the sum 
of five thousand dollars to me in hand paid, the 
receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, I, the 
said Richard Doe, have sold, assigned, and trans- 



ASSIGNMENTS IO3 

ferred, and by these presents do sell, assign, and 
transfer unto the said Ohio Typewriter Company, 
the whole right, title, and interest in and to the 
said improvements in Typewriting Machines, and 
in and to the Letters Patent therefor aforesaid ; 
the same to be held and enjoyed by the said Ohio 
Typewriter Company, for their own use and be- 
hoof, and for the use and behoof of their legal 
representatives, to the full end of the term for 
which said Letters Patent are or may be granted, 
as fully and as entirely as the same would have 
been held and enjoyed by me had this assignment 
and sale not been made. 

In testimony whereof^ I have hereto set my 
hand and affixed my seal, at Columbus, County 
and State aforesaid, this tenth day of January, 

A.D. 1901. 

Richard Doe. (Seal) 
In presence of 

John Smith, 

Thos. Jones. 



State of Ohio, 

v ss 
County of Franklin, 



A 



Subscribed and acknowledged before me this 
tenth day of January, a.d. 1901. 

John Rice, 

Notary Public. 



Seal. 



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ASSIGNMENT OF AN UNDIVIDED INTEREST 

Whereas, I, Richard Doe, of Philadelphia, County 
of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, did obtain 
Letters Patent of the United States for improve- 
ments in Locomotive Head-Lights, which Letters 
Patent are numbered 000,000, and bear the date 
of June 26, 1900 ; and whereas John Roe, of Phil- 
adelphia, County of Philadelphia, and State of 
Pennsylvania, is desirous of acquiring an interest 
in the same : 

Nouf, therefore, this indenture witnesseth, that 
for and in consideration of the sum of one thou- 
sand dollars to me in hand paid, the receipt of 
which I acknowledge, I do hereby sell, assign, and 
transfer unto the said John Roe^ one undivided 
one-half of all the right, title, and interest in and 
to the said invention and in and to the Letters 
Patent therefor aforesaid ; the same to be held 
and enjoyed by the said John Roe, his heirs, as- 
signs, or legal representatives as fully and entirely 
as the same would have been held and enjoyed 
by me if this assignment and sale had not been 
made. 

And I do hereby declare that I have not 
conveyed to any other party the rights and 
interests herein transferred to the said John 
Roe. 



GRANTS 105 

Witness my hand and seal this tenth day of Jan- 
uary, A.D. 1901. 

Richard Doe. 
In presence of 
John Smith, 
Thos. Jones. 



PHIA, ) 



State of Penna 
County of Philadelphia 

Subscribed and sworn before me this tenth day 
of January, a.d. 1901. 

John Rice, 
Seal, : Notary Public, 



GRANT OF A TERRITORIAL INTEREST 

Whereas^ I, Richard Doe, of Dayton, County of 
Montgomery, State of Ohio, did obtain Letters 
Patent of the United States for improvements in 
Corn-Cultivators, which Letters Patent are num- 
bered 000,000,. and bear date the first day of Jan- 
uary, 1901, and whereas, I am now the sole owner 
of said patent, and of all rights under the same in 
the below-recited territory ; and whereas, John 
Roe, of Indianapolis, County of Marion, State of 
Indiana, is desirous of acquiring an interest in the 
same ; 

Now^ therefore^ to all whom it may concern, be 
it known, that for and in consideration of the sum 
of one thousand dollars to me in hand paid, the 



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receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, I, the 
said Richard Doe, have sold, assigned, transferred, 
and by these presents do sell, assign, and transfer 
unto the said J:::: Roe, all the right, title, and in- 
terest in ar:, :: ::.z sa::' invention, as secured to 
me by said Letiers Patent, for, to, and in the 
States of Indiana and Illinois, and for, to, or in 
no other place or places : the saute to be held and 
enjoyed by the said John I e h and through- 
out the above-specified :e :: h :t not else- 
where, for his own use ana ca:::. ^ . , or the use 
and behoof of his legal representatives, to the full 
end of the term for which said Letters Patent are 
or may be granted, as fully and entirely as the 
same would have been held and enjoyed by me 
had this assignment and sale not been made. 

In testimony whereof^ I have hereunto set my 
hand and affixed my seal this tenth day of Janu- 
ary, A.D. 1901, in the presence of the subscribing 
witnesses. 

Richard Doe. 
In presence of 

John Smith, 

Thos. Tones. 

Statz 17 I::d:ana. ) 
CcvNcv :7 :.-a::N. ;^^-^ 

On this tenth day 0: Januarv. a.d. iqci. per- 
sonaiiy appeared bef: e rae Richard Doe, to me 



LICENSE : — SHOP-RIGHT 107 

known and known to me to be the individual who 
executed the foregoing instrument, and who 
acknowledged to me that he executed the same 
for the purpose therein expressed. 

John Rice, 

Notary Public, 



Seal, 



LICENSE : — SHOP-RIGHT 

In consideration of the sum of two hundred dol- 
lars to me paid by the John Roe Company, a cor- 
poration of Pennsylvania, located in the city of 
Pittsburg, I do hereby license and empower said 
company to manufacture at a single foundry and 
machine-shop in said Pittsburg, and in no other 
place or places, the improvements in Pipe- 
Wrenches, for which Letters Patent of the 
United States, No. 000,000, were granted to me 
January i, 1901, and to sell the same through- 
out the United States to the full end of the term 
for which said Letters Patent are granted. 

Signed and delivered at Pittsburg, in the County 
of Allegheny, and State of Pennsylvania, this 
tenth day of January, a.d. 1901. 

Richard Doe. 
To John Roe Company, 

Pittsburg, Pa. 



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LICENSE : — NON-EXCLUSIVE — WITH ROYALTY 

This agreement^ made this tenth day of January, 
1901, between Richard Doe, of Wilmington, 
County of New Castle, State of Delaware, party 
of the first part, and the Metallic Railway Tie 
Company, of Chicago, in the County of Cook, and 
State of Illinois, party of the second part, 

Witnesseth^ that whereas Letters Patent of the 
United States, No. 000,000, for an improvement 
in Metallic Railroad-Ties, were granted to the 
party of the first part January i, 1901 ; and 
whereas the party of the second part is desirous 
of manufacturing Metallic Railroad-Ties contain- 
ing the said patented improvements : 

Noiv^ therefore^ the parties hereto have agreed 
as follows : 

1. The party of the first part hereby licenses 
and empowers the party of the second part to 
manufacture, subject to the conditions herein 
named, at their plant in Chicago, and in no other 
place or places, to the end of the term for which 
said Letters Patent were granted, Metallic Rail- 
road-Ties containing the patented improvements, 
and to sell the same within the United States. 

IL The party of the second part agrees to 
make full and true returns to the party of the 
first part, under oath, upon the first days of Jan- 
uary and July in each year, of all Metallic Rail- 



LICENSE, WITH ROYALTY 109 

road-Ties containing said patented improvements 
manufactured by them. 

III. The party of the second part agrees to 
pay the party of the first part five dollars as a 
license fee upon each and every thousand Metal- 
lic Railroad-Ties manufactured by the party of 
the second part containing the patented improve- 
ments : provided, that if the said fee be paid upon 
the days provided herein for semi-annual returns, 
or within ten days thereafter, a discount of fifty 
per cent, shall be made from said fee for prompt 
payment. 

IV. The party of the second part agrees to put 
forth their best efforts and use due diligence in 
the manufacture and sale of the Metallic Railroad- 
Ties containing the said patented improvements, 
and if the royalties do not amount to five hun- 
dred dollars semi-annually, the party of the first 
part may terminate this license by serving a 
written notice upon the party of the second part. 

V. Upon the failure of the party of the second 
part to make returns or to make payment of 
license fees, as herein provided, for thirty days 
after the days herein named, the party of the 
first part may terminate this license by serving 
a written notice upon the party of the second 
part ; but the party of the second part shall 
not thereby be discharged from any liability 
to the party of the first part for any license 



no POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 

fees due at the time of the service of such 

notice. 

In witness whereof^ the parties above named 

have hereto set their hands the day and year first 

above written, at Chicago, County of Cook, and 

State of Illinois. 

Richard Doe, 

Metallic Railway Tie Company^ 

Per John Roe, President. 

LICENSE : — EXCLUSIVE — WITH ROYALTY 

This agreement^ made this tenth day of January, 
1901, between Richard Doe, of Boston, State of 
Massachusetts, party of the first part, and the 
Roe Vending Machine Company, a corporate 
body under the laws of the State of New Jersey, 
located and doing business at the city of New 
York, in the State of New York, party of the 
second part, 

Witnesseth, that whereas, Letters Patent of 
the United States, No. 000,000, were, on the first 
day of January, 1901, granted to the said party 
of the first part, for improvements in Coin-Con- 
trolled Machines, and whereas said party of the 
second part is desirous of manufacturing and 
selling said patented article : Now, therefore, the 
parties hereto have agreed as follows : 

I. The party of the first part gives to the party 
of the second part the exclusive right to manu- 



LICENSE, WITH ROYALTY III 

facture and sell the said patented improvements, 
to the end of the term of said patent, subject to 
the conditions hereinafter named. 

II. The party of the second part agrees to make 
full and true returns, on the first days of January 
and July in each year, of all machines manufact- 
ured and sold by them containing the said pat- 
ented improvements in the six calendar months 
last past ; and if the party of the first part shall 
not be satisfied in any respect with any such re- 
turn, then shall the party of the first part have the 
right, either by himself or by his attorney, to ex- 
amine any and all books of account of said party 
of the second part concerning any items, charges, 
memoranda, or information relating to the manu- 
facture or sale of said patented Coin-Controlled 
Machines ; and upon request made, said party of 
the second part shall produce all such books for 
said examination. 

III. The party of the second part agrees to pay 
the party of the first part five dollars as a license 
fee upon every one of the said patented Coin-Con- 
trolled Machines manufactured by them, the whole 
of said license fee for each term of six months to 
be due and payable on the days hereinabove pro- 
vided for semi-annual returns; provided, that if said 
fee be paid upon the days herein provided, or within 
fifteen days thereafter, a discount of fifty per cent, 
shall be made from said fee for prompt payment. 



112 POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 

IV. The party of the second part agrees to pay 
the party of the first part at least two thousand 
dollars, less discount, as said license fee upon 
each of the semi-annual terms, even though they 
should not make enough of said patented ma- 
chines to amount to that sum at the regular roy- 
alty of five dollars each. 

V. The party of the second part shall cast, or 
otherwise permanently place, upon every such 
machine made under this license the word " Doe, * 
and in close relation thereto the word ^* Patented,'* 
and the number and date of said patent. 

VI. The party of the second part shall not, dur- 
ing the life of this license, make or sell any article 
which can compete in the market with said Coin- 
Controlled Machines. 

VII. Upon the failure of the party of the second 
part to keep each and all of the conditions of this 
license and agreement, the party of the first part 
may, at his option, terminate this license, and 
such termination shall not release said party of 
the second part from any liability due at such time 
to the party of the first part. 

In witness whereof^ the above-named parties (the 
said Roe Vending Machine Company, by its pres- 
ident) have hereto set their hands the day and 
year first above written, rjchard Doe, 

Roe Vending Machine Company ^ 
By John Roe, President. 



MAP OF THE UNITED STATES 




CHAPTER X 

TABLES AND STATISTICS 



OFFICIAL CENSUS 

OP THE 

UNITED STATES, BY COUNTIES, FOR 1900 

{From the Bulletin of the Director of the Census) 



ALABAMA.— Area, 50,722 square miles. 



Autauga ... — 17,915 

Baldwin 13,194 

Barbour ....... 35,152 

Bibb 18,498 

Blount 23,119 

Bullock 31,944 

Butler 25,761 

Calhoun. ...... 34,874 

Chambers 32,554 

Cherokee 21,096 

Chilton 16,522 

Choctaw 18,136 

Clarke 27,790 

Clay 17,099 

Cleburne 13,206 

Coffee 20,972 

Colbert 22,341 

Conecuh 17,514 

Coosa 16,144 

Covington 15,346 

Crenshaw 19,668 

Cullman 17,849 



Dale, 21,189 

Dallas. 54,657 

Dekalb ... 23,558 

Elmore .... 26,099 

Escambia 11,320 

Etowah 27,361 

Fayette 14,132 

Franklin 16,511 

Geneva 19,096 

Greene 24,182 

Hale 31,011 

Henry 36,147 

Jackson 30,508 

Jefferson 140,420 

Lamar 16,084 

Lauderdale 26,559 

Lawrence 20,124 

Lee 31,826 

Limestone 22,387 

Lowndes 35,651 

Macon 23,126 

Madison 43,702 



Marengo 38,315 

Marion 14,494 

Marshall 23,289 

Mobile... 62,740 

Monroe 23,666 

Montgomery . . . 72,047 

Morgan 28,820 

Perry 31,783 

Pickens 24,402 

Pike 29,172 

Randolph 21,647 

Russell 27,083 

St. Clair 19,425 

Shelby 23,684 

Sumter 32,710 

Talladega 35,773 

Tallapoosa .... 29,675 

Tuscaloosa 36,147 

Walker 25,162 

Washington. . . . 11,134 

Wilcox 35,631 

Winston 9,554 



Total 1,828,697 

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ABIZOHA.— Area, 113^916 eqiiaie miles. 



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11^3S1 
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11,875 
63^79 

17,156 
17457 
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134S3 
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16,99 

12499 

8469 



34,956 
948M 
16304 
22,790 



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7,364 

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37,869 




CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES 



117 



Plumas 4,657 

Riverside IT, 897 

Sacramento 45,915 

San Benito 6,633 

San Bernardino 27,929 

San Diego 35,090 

San Francisco. .342,782 
San Joaquin... 35,452 
San Luis Obispo 16,637 
San Mateo 12,094 



Santa Barbara.. 18,934 

Santa Clara 60,216 

Santa Cruz 21,512 

Shasta 17,318 

Sierra 4,017 

SieMyou 16,962 

Solano 24,143 

Sonoma 38,480 

Stanislaus 9,550 

Sutter 5,885 



Tehama 10.996 

Trinity 4,383 

Tulare 18.375 

Tuolumne 11,166 

Ventura 14,367 

Yolo 13,618 

Yuba 8,620 



Total 1,485,053 



Arapahoe 153,017 

Archuleta 2,117 

Baca 759 

Bent 3,049 

Boulder 21,544 



COLORADO.— Area, 104,500 square miles. 

Grand 741 1 Park 2,998 

Gunnison 5,331 1 Phillips 1,583 

Hinsdale 1,609 " 

Huerfano 8,395 

Jefferson 9,306 



Chaffee 7,085 

Cheyenne 501 

Clear Creek.... 7,082 

Conejos 8,794 

Costilla 4,632 

Custer 2,937 

Delta 5,487 

Dolores 1,134 

Douglas 3,120 

Eagfe 3,008 

Elbert 3,101 

El Paso 31,602 

Fremont 15,636 

Garfield 5,835 

Gilpin 6,690 



Kiowa 701 

Kit Carson 1,580 

Lake 18,054 

La Plata 7,016 

Larimer 12,168 

Las Animas 21,84 ' 

Lincoln 926 

Logan 3,292 

Mesa 9,267 

Mineral , 1,913 

Montezuma 3, 058 

Montrose 4,535 

Morgan 3,268 

Otero 11,522 

Ouray 4,731 



Pitkin 7,020 

Prowers 3,766 

Pueblo 34,448 



Rio Blanco 1,690 

Rio Grande.... 4,080 

Routt 3,661 

Saguache 3,853 

San Juan 2,342 

San Miguel..... 5,379 

Sedgwick 971 

Summit 2,744 

Teller 29,002 

Washington. . . . 1,241 

Weld 16,808 

Yuma 1,729 



Total. 



.539,700 



Fairfield 184,203 

Hartford 195,415 

Litchfield 63,672 



CONNECTICUT.— Area, 4,674 square miles. 
Middlesex 41,760 



New London, . . . 82,758 

Tolland 24,523 

Windham 46,861 



New Haven.... 269, 163 
Total 908,35i 



DELAWARE.— Area, 2,120 square miles. 

Kent 32,762 | Newcastle 109,697 | Sussex 42,276 

Total 184,735 



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DISTRICT OF COLFMBIA.— Area, 60 square miles. 
The District 278,718 



FLORIDA.— Area, 59,268 square miles. 



Alachua 32,245 

Baker 4,516 

Bradford 10,295 

Brevard 5,158 

Calhoun 6,132 

Citrus 5,391 

Clay 5,635 

Columbia 17,094 

Dade 4,955 

DeSoto 8,047 

Duval 39,733 

Escambia 28,313 

Franklin 4,890 

Gadsden 15,294 

Hamilton 11,881 



Hernando 3,638 Nassau 9,654 

Hillsboro 36,013 Orange 11,374 

Holmes 7,762 Osceola 3,444 

Jackson 23,377 Pasco 6,054 

Jefferson 16,195 Polk 12,472 

Lafayette 4,987 I Putnam 11,641 

Lake 7,467 j St. John 9,165 

Lee 3,071 \ Santa Rosa 10,293 

Leon 19,887 Sumter 6,187 

Levy 8,603 Suwanee 14,554 



Liberty 2,956 

Madison 15,446 

Manatee. . , 4,663 



Taylor 3,999 

Volusia 10,003 

Wakulla 5,149 



Marion 24,403 Walton 9,346 

Monroe 18,006 , Washington.. . . 10,154 

Total 528,542 



GEORGIA.— Area, 58,000 square miles. 



Appling 12,336 

Baker 6,704 

Baldwin 17,768 

Banks 10,545 

Bartow 20,823 

Berrien 19,440 

Bibb 50,473 

Brooks 18,606 

Bryan 6,122 

Bulloch 21,377 



Burke 

Butts 

Calhoun. . . 
Camden. . . 
Campbell. . 



Carroll 

Catoosa 

Charlton 

Chatham 

Chattahoochee.. 



Chattooga. 
Cherokee. . 

Clarke 

Clay 

Clayton.. . 



30,165 

12,805 

9,274 

7.669 

9,518 

26,576 
5,823 
3,592 

71,239 
5,790 

12,952 

15,243 

17,708 

8,568 

9,598 



Clinch 8,732 

Cobb 24,664 

Coffee 16,169 

Colquitt 13,636 

Columbia 10,653 

Coweta 24,980 

Cravi^ord 10,368 

Dade 4,578 

Dawson 5,442 

Decatur 29,454 

Dekalb 21,112 

Dodge 13,975 

Dooly 26,567 

Dougherty 13.679 

Douglas 8,745 

Early 14,828 

Echols 3,209 

Effingham 8,334 

Elbert ... 19,729 

Emanuel 21,279 

Fannin 11,214 

Fayette 10,114 

Floyd 33,113 

Forsyth 11,550 

Franklin 17,700 



Fulton 117,363 

Gilmer 10,198 

Glascock 4,516 

Glynn 14,317 

Gordon 14,119 

Greene 16,542 

Gwinnett 25,585 

Habersham 13,604 

Hall 20,752 

Hancock 18,277 

Haralson 11,922 

Harris 18,009 

Hart 14,492 

Heard 11,177 

Henry 18,602 

Houston 22,641 

Irwin 13,645 

Jackson 24,039 

Jasper 15,033 

Jefferson 18,212 

Johnson 11,409 

Jones 13,358 

Laurens 25,908 

Lee 10,344 

Liberty 13,093 



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Lincoln 7,156 

Lowndes 20,036 

Lumpkin 7,433 

McDuffie 9,804 

Mcintosh 6,537 

Macon 14,093 

Madison 13,224 

Marion 10,080 

Meriwether 23,339 

Miller 6,319 

Milton 6,763 

Mitchell 14,767 

Monroe 20,682 

Montgomery 16,359 

Morgan 15,813 

Mm-ray 8,623 

Muscogee 29,836 

Newton 16,734 

Oconee 8,602 

Oglethorpe 17,881 

Paulding 12,969 



Pickens 8,641 

Pierce 8,100 

Pike 18,761 

Polk 17,856 

Pulaski... 18,489 

Putnam 13,436 

Quitman 4,701 

Rabun 6,285 

Randolph 16,847 

Richmond.. .. 53,735 

Rockdale 7,515 

Schley 5,499 

Screven 19,252 

Spalding 17,619 

Stewart 15,856 

Sumter 26,212 

Talbot 12,197 

Taliaferro 7,912 

Tattnall 20,419 

Taylor 9,846 

Telfair 10,083 



Terrell 19,023 

Thomas 31,076 

Towns 4,748 

Troup 24,002 

Twiggs 8,716 

Union 8,481 

Upson 13,670 

Walker 15,661 

Walton 20,942 

Ware 13,761 

Warren 11,463 

Washington.... 28,227 

Wayne 9,449 

Webster 6,618 

White 5,912 

Whitfield 14,509 

Wilcox 11,097 

WUkes 20,866 

Wilkinson 11,440 

Worth 18,664 



Total 2,216,331 



IDAHO.— Area, 86,294 square miles. 



Ada 11,559 

Bannock 11,702 

Bear Lake 7,051 

Bingham 10,447 

Blaine 4,900 

Boise 4,174 

Canyon 7,497 



Cassia 3,951 

Custer 2,049 

Elmore 2,286 

Fremont 12,821 

Idaho 9,121 

Kootenai 10,216 

Latah 13,451 



Lemhi 3,446 

Lincoln 1,784 

NezPerces 13,748 

Oneida 8,933 

Owyhee 3,804 

Shoshone 11,950 

Washington . . . 6,882 



Total 161,772 



ILLINOIS.— Area, 55,405 square miles. 



Adams 67,058 

Alexander 19,384 

Bond 16,078 

Boone 15,791 

Brown 11,557 

Bureau 41,112 

Calhoun 8,917 

Carroll 18,963 

Cass 17,222 

Champaign .... 47,622 

Christian 32,790 

Clark 24,033 

Clay 19,553 

Clinton 19,824 

Coles 34,146 



Cook 1,838,735 

Crawford 19,240 

Cumberland.. 16,124 

Dekalb 31,756 

Dewitt 18,972 

Douglas 19,097 

Dupage 28,196 

Edgar 28,273 

Edwards 10,345 

Effingham.... 20,465 

Fayette 28,065 

Ford 18,359 

Franklin 19,675 

Fulton 46.2(1 

Gallatin 15,836 



Greene 23,402 

Grundy 24,136 

Hamilton 20,197 

Hancock 32,215 

Hardin 7,448 

Henderson 10,836 

Henry 40,049 

Iroquois 38,014 

Jackson 33,871 

Jasper 20,160 

Jefferson 28,133 

Jersey 14,612 

»To Daviess. ... 24,533 

Johnson 15,667 

Kane 78,792 



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Kankakee 37,154 . 

KendaU 11,467 ; 

Knox 43,612 

Lake 34,504 ; 

Lasalle 8T,TT6 i 

La^Tence 16,523 

Lee 29,S94 

Livingston 42,035 

Logan 28,680 

McDonough.... 28,412 j 

McHenry 29,759 I 

McLean 67,843 

Macon 44,003 , 

Macoupin 42.256 

Madison 64,694 

Marion... 30,446 

Marshall 16,370 

Mason 17,491 



Mercer 20,945 ■ 

^SEonroe 13,847 

Montgomery . . . 30,836 

Morgan 35,006 

Moultrie 15,224 

Ogle 29,129 

Peoria 88,608 

Perrv 19,830 

Piatt 17,706 

Pike 31,595 

Pope 13,585 

Pulaski 14,554 

Putnam 4,746 

Randolph 23,001 

Richland 16,391 

Rock Island.. .. 55.249 

St. Clair 86,6S5 

Saline .., 2L68o 



Scott 10,455 

Shelby 32,126 

Stark 10,186 

Stephenson 34,933 

Tazewell 33,221 

Union 22,610 

Vermilion 65,635 

Wabash 12,583 

Warren 23,163 

Washington 19,526 

Wavne 27,626 

White 25,386 

Whiteside 34,710 

Will 74,764 

Williamson 27,796 

Winnebago 47,845 

Woodford 21,822 



Massac... ..... 13,110 ■ Sangamon 7L593 

Menard 14,336 i Schuyler 16,129 

Total 4,821,550 



INDLAJSfA.— Area, 33,809 square miles. 



Adams 22,232 

Allen 77,270 

Bartholomew .. 24,594 

Benton.... 13.123 



Blackford. 



Gibson 30,099 

Grant 54,693 

Greene 2S,5B0 

Hamilton 29,914 



17,213 Hancock 19,189 Morgan. 



Martin 14,711 

Miami 28,344 

Monroe 20.873 

Montgomery.... 29.388 



20,457 

Boone 26,321 Harrison 21.702 Newton 10,448 

Brown 9.727 Hendricks 21,292 Noble 23,533 

Carroll 19,953 Henry 25,088 Ohio 4,724 

Cass 34,545 Howard 28,575 Orange 16,854 

Clark 31,835 , Huntington 28,901 1 Owen 15,149 



Clay 34,285 \ 

Clinton 28.202 i 

Crawford 13,476 ! 

Daviess 29,914 : 

Dearborn 22,194 

Decatur ... .... 19,513 

Dekalb 25.711 

Delaware 49,624 

Dubois 20.357 

Elkhart 45,052 

Favette 13,495 

Floyd 30,113 

Foimtaln 21,446 

Franklin ... ... 16,333 

Fulton 17,453 



Jackson 26.633 I 

Jasper 14.292 

Jav 26,818 ' 

JeitVrson 22.913 

Jennings 15,757 

Johnson 20.223 ' 

Knox 32,746 

Kosciusko 29,109 

Lagrange 15. 234 

Lake 37,892 

Laporte 33.386 

Lawrence 25,729 

Madison T0.4T0 

Marlon 197,227 

Marshall 55,119 , 



Parke 23,000 

Perry 18,778 

Pike 20.486 

Porter 19,175 

Posey 22,333 

Pulaski 14,033 

Putnam 21,478 

Randolph 23,653 

Ripley 19.881 

Rush 20,148 

St. Joseph 58,881 

Scott 8,307 

Shelby 26,491 

Spencer 22.407 

Starke 10,431 



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Steuben 15,219 

Sullivan 26,005 

Switzerland.... 11,840 
Tippecanoe..., 38,659 

Tipton 19,116 

Union 6,748 



Vanderburg 71,769 

Vermilion 15,252 

Vigo 62,035 

Wabash 28,235 

Warren 11,371 

Warrick 22,329 



Washington ... 19,409 

Wayne 38,970 

Wells 23,449 

White 19,138 

Whitley 17,328 



Total ....2,516,492 



IOWA.— Area, 50,914 square miles. 



Adair 16.192 

Adams 13,601 

Allamakee. 18,711 

Appanoose 25,927 

Audubon 13,626 

Benton 25,177 

Blackhawk .... 32,399 

Boone 28,200 

Bremer 16,305 

Buchanan 21,427 

Buena Vista.... 16,975 

Butler 17,955 

Calhoun 18,569 

Carroll 20,319 

Cass 21,274 

Cedar 19,371 

Cerro Gordo.... 20,672 

Cherokee 16,570 

Chickasaw 17,037 

Clarke 12,440 

Clay 13,401 

Clayton 27,750 

Clinton 43,832 

Crawford 21,685 

Dallas 23,058 

Davis 15,620 

Decatur 18,115 

Delaware 19,185 

Des Moines 35,989 

Dickinson 7,995 

Dubuque 56,403 

Emmet 9,936 

Fayette ,. 29,845 



Floyd 17,754 

Franklin 14,996 

Fremont .. 18,546 

Greene 17,820 

Grundy 13,757 

Guthrie 18,729 

Hamilton., 19,514 

Hancock 13,752 

Hardin 22,794 

Harrison 25,597 

Henry 20,022 

Howard 14,512 

Humboldt 12,667 

Ida 12,327 

Iowa 19,544 

Jackson 23,615 

Jasper 26,976 

Jefferson 17,437 

Johnson 24,817 

Jones 21,954 

Keokuk 24,979 

Kossuth 22,720 

Lee 39,719 

Linn 55,392 

Louisa 13,516 

Lucas 16,126 

Lyon 13,165 

Madison 17,710 

Mahaska 34,273 

Marion 24,159 

Marshall 29,991 

Mills 16,764 

Mitchell 14,916 



Monona 17,980 

Monroe 17,985 

Montgomery.... 17,803 

Muscatine 28,242 

O'Brien 16,985 

Osceola 8,725 

Page 24,187 

Palo Alto...... 14,354 

Plymouth 22,209 

Pocahontas 15,339 

Polk ... 82,624 

Pottawattamie.. 54,336 

Poweshiek 19,414 

Ringgold 15,325 

Sac 17,639 

Scott 51,558 

Shelby 17,932 

Sioux 23,337 

Story 23,159 

Tama 24,585 

Taylor 18,784 

Union 19,928 

VanBuren 17,354 

Wapello 35,426 

Warren , 20,376 

Washington.... 20,718 

Wayne 17,491 

Webster 31,757 

Winnebago 12,725 

Winneshiek..., 23,731 

Woodbury 54,610 

Worth 10,887 

Wright... 18,227 



Total 2,231,853 



KANSAS.— Area, 78,418 square miles. 



Allen 19,507 

Anderson 13,938 

Atchison 28,606 

Barber 6,594 



Barton 13,784 I Chase 8,246 

Bourbon 24,712 Chautauqua, . . . 11,804 

Brown 22,369 Cherokee 42,694 

Butler 23,363 | Cheyenne 2,640 



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Clark 

Clav 

Cloud 

Coffey 

Comanche. . . . 


,. 1,701 
.. lo,S33 

.. 1S,0T1 
.. 16,643 
. . 1,619 


Covrlev 

Crawford 

Decatur 

Dickinson.. . 
Doniphan 


.. 30,156 
. 3S,S09 
, . 9,234 
. 21,S16 
.. 15,079 


Douglas 

Edwards 

Elk 

Elli«.. 


.. 25,096 
.. 3.6S2 
.. 11,443 

.. 8,626 


Ellsworth — 


. . 9,626 


Finney 

Ford 

Franklin 

Geary 

Gove 


. . 3,469 
.. 5,497 
.. 21.354 
.. 10,744 
.. 2,441 


Graham ... . 

Grant 

Gray 

Greeley 

Greenwood. . 


. . 0,173 
422 

".'. 1.264 
493 

.. 16,196 


Hamilron 

Harper 

Harvev 

Haskell 

Hodgeman . . . 


.. 1,426 
.. 10,310 
.. 17,591 
457 
. . 2,032 


Jackson 


.. 17,171 



Jefferson 17,533 

Jewell 19.420 

Johnson 1S,104 

Kearny 1,107 

Kingman 10.663 

Kiowa 2.365 

Labette 27,3S7 

Lane 1.563 

Leavenworth... 40,940 

Lincoln... 9,SS6 

Linn 16.659 

Logan 1,962 

Lvon 25.074 

McPherson 21,421 

Marion 20.676 

Marshall 24,355 

Meade 1,551 

Miami 21.641 

Mitchell 14,647 

Montgomery.. . . 29,039 

Morris .'. . 11,967 

Morton 304 

Nemaha 20.376 

Neosho 19,254 

Ness 4,535 

Norton 11,325 

Osage 23,659 

Osborne 11,844 

Ottawa 11.182 

Pawnee 5,084 

Phillips 14,442 



Pottawatomie . . 18,470 

Pratt 7,085 

Rawlins 5.241 

Reno 29,027 

Republic 18,248 

Rice 14.745 

Ptilev 13,823 

Rooks 7,960 

Rush 6,134 

Russell 8.489 

Saline 17,076 

Scott 1.098 

Sedg^vick 44^037 

Seward 822 

Shawnee... 53,727 

Sheridan 3.819 

Sherman 3,841 

Smith 16,384 

Stafford.: 9.829 

Stanton 327 

Stevens 620 

Stunner 25,631 

Thomas 4,112 

Trego 2,722 

Wabaunsee .... 12.S13 

WaUace...... .. 1,178 

Washington.... 21.963 

Wichita 1.197 

Wilson 15,6-21 

Woodson 10,022 

Wyandotte. ... 73.227 



Total 1,470,495 



KENTUCKY.— Area, 37,650 square miles. 



Adair 14,5SS 

Allen 14.b57 

Anderson 1<J. '51 

Ballard 1",761 

Barren J23.197 

Bath.. 14,7.34 

Bell 15,701 

Boone 11,170 

Bourbon 18,069 

Boyd 18,b34 

Bovle 13,817 

Bracken 12.137 

Breathitt 14.32-2 

Breckinridge. . . 20,534 

Bullitt 9,60-2 



Butler 15.596 

Caldwell , 14,. 510 

Callowav 17,633 

Campbell ...... 54.223 

Carlisle 10,195 

Carroll 9,525 

Carter 20.225 

Casev 15.144 

Christian a7.9€2 

Clark 16.694 



Edmonson 10.080 

Elliott . 10,387 

Estill 11.669 

Favette 42.071 

Fleming 17,074 

Flovd 15.552 

Franklin 20,852 

Fulton 1L546 

Gallatin 5,163 

Garrard 12,042 



Clav 15.364 Grant. 18,239 

Clinton 7.571 Graves 33,204 

Crittenden 15.191 Gravson 19,878 

Cumberland. . . . 8.962 Green 12,255 

Daviess , 38,667 i Greenup. ..... . 15,432 



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Hancock 8,914 

Hardin 22,937 

Harlan 9,838 

Harrison 18,570 

Hart 18,390 

Henderson 32,907 

Henry 14,620 

Hickman 11,745 

Hopkins 30,995 

Jackson 10,561 

Jefferson 232,549 

Jessamine 11,925 

Johnson. 13,730 

Kenton 63,591 

Knott 8,T04 

Knox 17,372 

Larue 10,764 

Laurel 17,592 

Lawrence 19,612 

Lee 7,988 

Leslie 6,753 

Letcher 9,172 

Lewis... 17,868 

Lincoln 17,059 

Livingston 11,354 



Logan 25,994 Perry . 

Lyon 9,319 ^" 

McCracken 28,733 

McLean........ 12,448 

Madison 25,607 



.... 8,276 

Pike" 22,686 

Powell 6.443 

Pulaski 31,293 

Robertson 4,900 



Magoffin 12,006 Rockcastle 12,416 

Marion 16,290 ; Rowan 8,277 



Marshall 13,692 

Martin 5,780 

Mason . 20,446 

Meade 10,533 

Menifee 6,818 

Mercer 14,426 

Metcalf 9,978 

Monroe 13,053 

Montgomery . . . 12,034 

Morgan 12,792 

Muhlenberg 20,741 

Nelson 16,587 

Nicholas 11,952 

Ohio 27,287 

Oldham 7,078 

Owen 17,553 

Owsley 6,874 

Pendleton 14,947 



Russell 9,695 

Scott 18,076 

Shelby 18,340 

Simpson 11,624 

Spencer 7,406 

Taylor 11,075 

Todd 17,371 

Trigg 14,073 

Trimble 7,272 

Union 21,326 

Warren 29,970 

Washington.... 14,182 

Wayne 14,892 

Webster 20,097 

Whitley 25,015 

Wolfe 8,764 

Woodford 13,134 



Total 2,147,174 



LOUISIANA.— Area, 41,255 square miles. 



Acadia 


.. 23,483 


Iberville 


... 27,006 


Ascension . . . 


.. 24,142 


Jackson 


.. 9,119 


Assumption . 
Avoyelles — 


. 21,620 


Jefferson 


.. 15,321 


.. 29,701 


Lafayette . . . 


.. 22,825 


Bienville 


.. 17,588 


Lafourche. . . 


... 28,882 



Bossier 

Caddo . . . . 
Calcasieu . 
Caldwell . . 
Cameron. . 



Catahoula , 

Claiborne , 

Concordia 

De Soto 

East Baton 

Rouge., 

East Carroll 

East Feliciana. , 

Franklin 

Grant 

Iberia 



24,153 

44,499 

30,428 

6,917 

3,952 

16,351 
23,029 
13,559 
25,063 

31,153 

11,373 
20,443 

8,890 
12,902 
29.015 



Lincoln 15,898 

Livingston 8.100 

Madison 12,322 

Morehouse 16,634 

Natchitoches... 33,216 

Orleans 287,104 

Ouachita 20,947 

Plaquemines. . . 13,039 
Pointe Coupee. . 25,777 
Rapides 39,578 

Red River 11,548 

Richland 11,116 

Sabine 15,421 

St. Bernard .... 5,031 

St. Charles 9,072 



St. Helena 

St. James 

St. John the Bap- 
tist 

St. Landry 

St. Martin 



St. Mary 

St. Tammany . . 

Tangipahoa 

Tensas 

Terrebonne 



Union 

Vermilion . 

Vernon , 

Washington. , 
Webster 



8,479 
20,197 

12,330 
52,906 
18,940 

34,145 
13,335 
17,625 
19,070 
24,464 

18,520 
20.705 
10,327 
9,628 
15,125 



West Baton 

Rouge . . 
West Carroll. . . 
West Feliciana. 
Winn 



10,285 
3,685 

15,994 
9,648 



Total 1,381,625 



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MAINE.— Area, 31,766 square miles. 



Androscoggin.. 54,242 

Aroostook 60,744 

Cumberland.... 100,689 

Franklin 18.444 

Hancock 37,241 

Kennebec 59, 117 



Knox 30,406 

Lincoln 19,669 

Oxford 32,238 

Penobscot 76,246 

Piscataquis 16,949 

Sagadahoc 20,330 



Somerset 33,849 

Waldo 24,185 

Washington.... 45,233 

York 64,885 



Total 694,466 



MARYLAND.— Area, 11,124 square miles. 



Allegany 53,694 

Anne Arundel.. 40,018 

Baltimore 90,755 

Baltimore City. . 508,957 
Calvert 10,223 

Caroline 16,248 

CarroU 33,860 

Cecil 24,662 

Charles 18,316 



Dorchester 27,962 



Frederick 
Garrett. . . . 
Harford . . 
Howard. . 
Kent 



Montgomery . . . 
Prince George. 



51,920 

17,701 
28; 269 
16,715 
18,786 

30,451 
29,898 



Queen Anne. .. . 18,364 

St. Mary 18,136 

Somerset 25,923 

Talbot 20,342 

Washington.... 45.133 

Wicomico 22,852 

Worcester 20,865 



Total 1,190,050 



MASSACHUSETTS.— Area, 7,800 square miles. 



Barnstable 27,826 

Berkshire 95,667 

Bristol 252,029 

Dukes 4,561 

Essex 357,030 



Franklin 41,209 1 Norfolk 151,539 

Hampden 175,603 Plymouth 113,985 



Hampshire.... 58,820 

Middlesex 565,696 

Nantucket 3,006 



Suffolk 611,417 

Worcester 846,958 



Total 2,805,3 



MICHIGAN.— Area, 56,243 square miles. 



Alcona 5,691 

Alger 5,868 

AUegan 38,812 

Alpena 18,254 

Antrim 16,568 

Arenac 9,821 

Baraga 4,320 

Barry 22,514 

Bay 62,378 

Benzie 9,685 

Berrien 49,165 

Branch 27,811 

Calhoun 49,315 

Cass 20,876 

Charlevoix 13,956 



Cheboygan 15,516 

Chippewa 21,338 

Clare 8,360 

Chnton 25,136 

Crawford 2,943 

Delta 23,881 

Dickinson 17,890 

Eaton 31,668 

Emmet 15,931 

41,&04 



Gladwin 6,564 

Gogebic 16,738 

Grand Traverse 20,479 

Gratiot 29,889 

Hillsdale 29,865 



Houghton 66,063 

Huron 34,162 

Ingham 39,818 

Ionia 34,329 

Iosco 10,246 

Iron 8,990 

Isabella 22,784 

Jackson 48,222 

Kalamazoo 44,310 

Kalkaska 7,133 

Kent 129,714 

Keweenaw 3,217 

Lake 4,957 

Lapeer 27,641 

Leelanaw 10,556 



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Lenawee 48,406 j 

Livingston 19,664 I 

Luce 2,983 

Mackinac 7,703 1 

Macomb 33,244 I 

Manistee 27,856 ' 

Manitou I 

41,239; 

Mason 18,885 | 

Mecosta 20,693 

Menominee 27,046 ' 

Midland 14,439 | 

Missaukee 9,308 

Mom-oe 32,754 1 



Montcalm 32,754 

Montmorency . . 3,234 

Muskegon 37,036 

Newaygo 17,673 

Oakland....... 44,792 

Oceana 16,644 

Ogemaw 7,765 

Ontonagon 6,197 

Osceola 17,859 

Oscoda 1,468 

Otsego......... 6,175 

Ottawa 39,667 

Presque Isle. . . . 8,821 



Roscommon. . . , 1,787 

Saginaw 81,222 

St. Clair 55.228 

St. Joseph 23,889 

Sanilac 35,055 

Schoolcraft .... 7,889 

Shiawassee 33,866 

Tuscola 35,890 

VanBuren 33,274 

Washtenaw.... 47,761 

Wayne 348,793 

Wexford 16,845 



Total 2,420,982 



MINNESOTA.— Area, 95,274 square miles. 



Aitkin 6,743 

Anoka 11,313 

Becker 14,375 

Beltrami. 11,030 

Benton 9,912 

Bigstone 8,731 

Blue Earth 32,263 

Brown..., 19,787 

Carlton 10,017 

Carver 17,544 

Cass 7,777 

Chippewa 12,499 

Chisago 13,248 

Clay 17,942 

Cook 810 

Cottonwood.... 12,069 
Crow Wing.... 14,250 

Dakota 21,733 

Dodge 13,340 

Douglas 17,964 

Faribault 22,055 

Fillmore 23,238 

Freeborn 21,838 

Goodhue 31,137 

Grant 8,935 

Hennepin 228,340 

Houston 15,400 

Hubbard 6,578 



Isanti 11,675 

Itasca 4,573 

Jackson 14,793 

Kanabec 4,614 

Kandiyohi 18,416 

Kittson 7,889 

Lac qui Parle.. 14,289 

Lake 4,654 

Lesueur 20,234 

Lincoln 8,966 

Lyon 14,591 

McLeod 19,595 

Marshall 15,698 

Martin 16,936 

Meeker 17,753 

Millelacs 8,066 

Morrison 22,891 

Mower 22,335 

Murray 11,911 

Nicollet 14,774 

Nobles 14,932 

Norman 15,045 

Olmsted 23,119 

Ottertai 45,375 

Pine 11,546 

Pipestone 9,264 

Polk 35,429 

Pope 12,577 



Ramsey 170,554 

Red Lake 12,195 

Redwood 17,261 

Renville 23,693 

Rice 26,080 

Rock 9,668 

Roseau 6,994 

St. Louis 82,932 

Scott 15,147 

Sherburne 7,281 

Sibley 16,862 

Steams 44,464 

Steele 16,524 

Stevens 8,721 

Swift 13,503 

Todd 22,214 

Traverse 7,573 

Wabasha 18,924 

Wadena 7,921 

Waseca 14,760 

Washington.... 27,808 

Watonwan 11,496 

Wilkin 8.080 

Winona 35,686 

Wright 29,157 

White Earth In- 
dian Reserva- 
tion 3,486 

Yellow Medicine 14,602 



Total ' 1,751,394 



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MISSISSEPPL-.\Tva. 47,150 square miles. 



Aksam. 
Amite.. 



Benhm.. 



30,111 Itawamba 13,5^ 

14,aS7 Jackson 16,513 i 

20.708 Jasper 15.394 j 

26.24S Jefferson. 21.292 j 



10,510 Jones. 



Perry 14.682 

Pike 87,545 

Panrotoc 18.2T4 

Prenriss 15,788 



17,54': , Qnirman. 



5,435 



BoliYar. 

C^dhoim... . 

Camdl 

Chickasaw. 
Choctaw. . . . 



So. 427 
16.512 
22,116 
19.5<»2 
13,03<3 



Kemper 20.492 I Puankin 80.955 

Lafayette 2-2,110 Scon 14,316 

Lauderdale SS,150 SliiLrkey 12,178 

Lawrence 15.103 Simpson 12.800 

Leake 17,36<:i Smirh 13,055 



Claiborne 2i>.7S7 

Clarke 17.741 

Clay 19,563 

Coahoma, 26.293 

Copiab S4,395 

C;-rig::- 13.076 

Be Soeu 24,751 

Franklin 13,67S 

Greene 6,795 

Grenada 14.112 

Hancock 11, SS 

Harrison 21. lv 

Hirds 52.57 

Hoiics 36,52 

Issa:iir-a lu,4- 



Lee 21,956 

Leflore 23,534 

Lincoln 21.552 

Lo\rndes 29.0^0 

Madison 32,493 

Marion 13,501 

Marsbali 27.674 

Monroe 31.216 

Montgomerv. . . 16.536 

Neshoba....' ... 12,726 

Isewton 19,705 

> oxnbee 3«:'. 546 

Oktibbeha 20. 153 

Panola 29.027 

Pearl Paver 6.697 



Snnfiower 

Tallahatchie. . 

Tate 

Tippah 

Tishom^inso. . 



16.084 
19,600 
20.618 
12,983 
10,124 



Tnnica 16.479 

Union 16,522 

VTarren 40,912 

Washington.... 49,216 

Wayne 12,539 

Webster 18,619 

Wilkinson. 21.453 

Winston 14,1*24 

Yalobusha 19,742 

Yazoo 43,94S 



Total 1,551.270 



MISSOUPJ — Area, 67.3S0 square miles. 

Aiarr. 21.725 Charlton 26,526 Harrison 24,3^ 

Andrew 17.332 Chrisrian 16,939 Henry 28.054 

AtchlsoiL 16.501 Clark 15.3S3 Hickory. 9.985 

Audrain 21.160 Clay 18,9(6 Bolt 17,i 

25.532 Clinton 17,368 Howard 



Barrv. 



Barton 15.255 Cole . 



18,337 

20.573 Howell 81,834 

Bares 3i',141 Cooper 22,532 L-on 8,716 

Benton 16.556 Crawford 12.959 Jackson 195^193 

Boljinger 14,65') Dade lS,12o Jasper §^??? 

Boone ' 



25.642 Dallas 13,903 Jefferson. 



.. 25,n2 



BuchanaiL 12 • ,535 Daviess 2L325 Johnson 87.843 

Butler 16.769 Dekalb 14.41S Knox 13,479 

CaldweU 16.656 Dent 12.956 Laclede 16.523 

Callawav . 25.954 Dotiglas, 16.S02 Lafavette 31,679 

Camden 13.113 Dunkhn 21,706 Lawrence 31,668 

Cape Girardeau 24.315 Franklin 30.5S1 Lewis 16,784 

CarroU 26.455 Gasconade .... 12.295 Lincoln ia358 

Car:er t.Ti^ Gentry 20.554 Linn 85.503 

C ^ T Greene 52.713 Livingston. 88,308 

Cr - : Grundy 17,832 McDonald 13,574 



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Macon 33,018 

Madison 9,975 

Maries 9,616 

Marion 26,331 

Mercer 14,T06 

Miller 15,187 

Mississippi. — 11,887 

Moniteau 15,931 

Monroe 19,716 

Montgomery.... 16,571 

Morgan 12,175 

New Madrid.... 11,280 

Newton 27,001 

Nodaway 32,938 

Oregon 13,906 



14,096 

Ozark 12,145 

Pemiscot 12,115 

Perry 15,134 

Total 



Pettis.. 32,438 

Phelps 14,194 

Pike 25,744 

Platte 16,193 

Polk 23,255 

Pulaski 10,394 

Putnam 16,688 

Ralls 12,287 

Randolph 24,442 

Ray 24,805 

Reynolds 8,161 

Ripley 13,186 

St. Charles 24,474 

St. Clair 17,907 

Ste. Genevieve. 10,359 
St. Francois. . . . 24,051 

St. Louis 50,040 

St. Louis City.. 575,238 



Saline 33.703 

Schuyler 10,840 

Scotland 13,232 

Scott 13,092 

Shannon 11,247 

Shelby 16,167 

Stoddard 24,669 

Stone 9,892 

SulKvan 20,282 

Taney 10,127 

Texas 22,192 

Vernon 31,619 

Warren 9,919 

Washington.... 14,263 

Wayne 15,309 

Webster 16,640 

Worth 9,832 

Wright 17,519 



.3,106,665 



MONTANA.— Area, 143,776 square miles. 



Beaverhead 5,615 

Broadwater 2, 641 

Carbon 7,533 

Cascade 25,777 

Choteau 10,966 

Custer 7,891 

Dawson 2,443 

Deerlodge 17,393 

Fergus 6,937 

Total 



Flathead 9,375 

Gallatin 9,553 

Granite 4,328 

Jefeerson 5,330 

Lewis and Clarkel9,171 

Madison 7,695 

Meagher 2,526 

Missoula 13,964 



Park 7,341 

Ravalli 7,822 

Silverbow 47,635 

Sweet Grass. .. . 3,086 

Teton 5,080 

Valley 4,355 

Yellowstone. . . . 6,212 
Crow Indian Res- 
ervation 2,660 

243,339 



NEBRASKA.— Area, 75,995 square miles. 



Adams 18,840 

Antelope 11,344 

Banner 1,114 

Blaine 603 

Boone 11,689 

Boxbutte 5,572 

Boyd 7,332 

Brown 3,470 

Buffalo 20,254 

Burt 13,040 

Butler. 15,703 

Cass 21,330 

Cedar 12,467 

Chase 2,559 

Cherry 6,541 

Cheyenne 5,570 



Clay 15,735 

Colfax 11,211 

Cuming 14,584 

Custer 19,758 

Dakota 6,286 

Dawes 6,215 

Dawson 12,214 

Deuel 2,630 

Dixon 10,535 

Dodge 22,298 

Douglas 140,590 

Dundy 2,434 

Fillmore 15,087 

Franklin 9,455 

Frontier 8,781 

Furnas 12,373 



Gage 30,051 

Garfield 2,127 

Gosper 5,301 

Grant 763 

Greeley 5,691 

Hail 17,206 

Hamilton 13,330 

Harlan 9,370 

Hayes 2,708 

Hitchcock 4,409 

Holt 12,224 

Hooker 432 

Howard 10,343 

Jefferson 15,196 

Johnson 11,197 

Kearney 9,866 



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POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 



Keith 1,951 

Keyapaha 3,076 

Kimball T5S 

Knox 14.343 

Lancaster 64,S85 

Lincoln 11,416 

Logan 960 

Loup 1,305 

McPherson 517 

Madison 16.976 

Merrick 9,255 

Nance S,222 

Nemaha 14.952 

Nnckolls 12,414 

Total 



Otoe 22,2SS 

Pawnee 11,770 

Perkins 1,702 

Phelps 10,772 

Pierce 8,44-5 

Platte 17,747 

Polk 10,542 

Redwillow 9.604 

Richardson .... 19.614 

Rock 2,S09 

Saline 18.252 

Sarpy 9,060 

Saunders 22,085 

Scotts Bluff .... 2.552 . 



Seward 15,690 

Sheridan 6,033 

Sherman 6,550 

Sioux 2,055 

Stanton 6,959 

Thaver 14,325 

Thomas 628 

Thurston 8,756 

Valley 7,339 

Washington.. .. 13,086 

Wavne 9,862 

Webster 11,6 '9 

Wheeler 1,362 

York 15,205 



.1,068,539 



NEVADA.— Area, 122,090 square miles. 



Chm-chill 830 

Douglas 1.534 

Elko 5,6SS 

Esmeralda 1,972 

Eureka 1,954 



Humboldt 4,463 

Lander 1,534 

Lincoln 3.284 

Lvon 2.268 

Nye 1,140 

Total 42,335 



Ormsby 2,893 

Storey/. 3.673 

Washoe 9,141 

White Pine 1,961 



NEW HAMPSHIRE.— Area, 9,280 square miles. 



Belknap 19.526 : 

Carroll 16.695 

Cheshire 31.32] 

Coos 29,468 



Grafton 40,844 

Hillsboro 112,640 

Merrimack 52,430 

Rockingham... 51,118 



Strafford 39.337 

Sulliyan 18,009 



Total 411,588 



NEW JERSEY.— Area, -;3, 320 square miles. 



Atlantic 46.402 

Bergen 75,441 

Bnrhngton 55.241 

Camden 107.643 

Cape May 13,201 



Gloucester 31,905 

Hudson 3^6,048 

Hunterdon 34,507 , 



Ocean 19.747 



Passaic 155,202 

Salem 25=530 

Someiset 32,948 

Sussex 24.134 

Union. 99.353 

Warren 37,T81 

Total 1,883,66» 



Cumberland.. .. 51,193 
Essex 359,053 



fiercer 95.365 

Middlesex 79,762 

Monmouth 82,057 

Morris 65,156 



NEW MEXICO.— Area. 121,201 square miles. 



Bernalillo 28.630 

Chayes 4,773 

Colfax 10,150 

Donna Ana 10,187 

Eddy = . . 3,229 

Grant 12.553 

Guadalupe 5,429 i 



Lincoln .... 4.953 

Mora 10,304 

Otero 4,791 

Rio Arriba 13,777 

San Juan 4,528 

SanMisuel .... 22.053 



Santa Fe 14,658 

Sierra 3,158 

Socorro 12,195 

Taos.... 10,889 

Union 4,523 

Valencia 13,895 



I 



Total 195,310 



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NEW YORK-— Area, 47,800 square miles. 



Albany 165,571 

Allegany 41,501 

Broome 69,149 

Cattaraugus . . . 65,643 
Cayuga 66,234 

Chautauqua.... 88,314 

Chemung 54,063 

Chenango 36,568 

Clinton 47,430 

Columbia 43,211 

Cortland 27,576 

Delaware 46,413 

Dutchess 81,670 

Erie 433,686 

, 30,707 



Franklin 42,853 

Fulton 42,842 

Genesee 34,561 

Greene 31,478 

Hamilton 4,947 



Herkimer 51,049 

JefEerson 76,748 

Kings 1,166,582 

Lewis 27,427 

Livingston... 37,059 

Madison 40,545 

Monroe 217,854 

Montgomery . . 47, 488 

Nassau 55,448 

New York.. ..2,050,600 

Niagara 74,961 

Oneida 132,800 

Onondaga .... 1 68, 735 

Ontario 49,605 

Orange 103,859 

Orleans 30,164 

Oswego 70,881 

Otsego 48,939 

Putnam 13,787 

Queens 152,999 



Schenectady.... 46,852 

Schoharie 26,854 

Schuyler 15,811 

Seneca 28,114 

Steuben 82,822 

Suffolk 77,582 

Sullivan 32,306 

Tioga 27,951 

Tompkins 33,830 

Ulster 88,422 

Warren 29,943 

Washington . . . 45,624 

Wayne 48,660 

Westchester.... 183,375 

Wyoming 30,413 

Yates 20,318 

Total 7,268,012 



Rensselaer 121,697 

Richmond 67,021 

Rockland 38,298 

St. Lawrence... 89,083 
61,089 



NORTH CAROLINA.— Area, 50,704 square miles. 



Alamance 25,665 

Alexander 10,9^)0 

Alleghany 7,759 

Anson 21,870 

Ashe 19,581 

Beaufort 26 404 

Bertie 20,588 

Bladen 17,677 

Brunswick 12,657 

Buncombe 44,288 

Burke 17,699 

Cabarrus 22,456 

Caldwell 15,694 

Camden 5,474 

Carteret 11,811 

Caswell 15,028 

Catawba 22,133 

Chatham 23,912 

Cherokee 11,860 

Chowan 10,258 

Clay 4,532 

Cleveland 25,078 

Columbus 21,274 



Craven 24,160 

Cumberland . . . 29,249 

Currituck 6,529 

Dare..... 4,757 

Davidson 23,403 

Davie 12,115 

Dulpin 22,405 

Durham.. 26,233 

Edgecombe.... 26,591 

Forsyth 85,261 

Franklin 25,116 

Gaston 27,903 

Gates 10,413 

Graham 4,343 

GranviUe 23,263 

Greene 12,038 

Guilford 39,074 

Halifax 30,793 

Harnett 15,988 

Haywood 16,222 

Henderson 14,104 

Hertford 14,294 



Hyde 9,278 

Iredell 29,064 

Jackson 11,853 

Johnston 82,250 

Jones 8,226 

Lenoir 18,639 

Lincoln 15,498 

McDowell 12,567 

Macon 12,104 

Madison 20,644 

Martin 15,383 

Mecklenburg... 55,268 

Mitchell 15,221 

Montgomery.... 14,197 
Moore 28,622 

Nash 25,478 

New Hanover. . 25,785 
Northampton.. 21,150 

Onslow 11,940 

Orange 14,690 

Pamlico 8,045 

Pasquotank 13,660 

Pender 13,381 



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POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 



Perquimans — 10,091 
Person 16,685 

Pitt 30,889 

Polk 7,004 

Randolph 28,232 

Richmond 28,408 

Robeson 40,371 

Rockingham... 33,163 
Rowan 31,066 

Total 



Rutherford 25,101 

Sampson 26,380 

Stanly 15,220 

Stokes 19,866 

Surry 25,515 

Swain 8,401 

Transylvania .. 6,620 
Tyrrell 4,980 

Union 27,156 



Vance 16,684 

Wake 54,636 

Warren 19,151 

Washington... 10,608 

Watauga 13,417 

Wayne 31,356 

Wilkes 26,872 

Wilson 23,596 

Yadkin 14,083 

Yancey 11,464 

1,893,810 



NORTH DAKOTA.— Area, 72,000 square miles. 



Barnes 13,159 ; 

Benson S,320 

Billings 975 

Bottineau 7,532 

Burleigh. 6,081 

Cass 28,625 

Cavalier 12,580 

Dickey 6,061 

Eddy 3,330 

Emmons 4,349 

Foster 3,770 

Grand Forks. . . 24,459 
Griggs 4,744 j 



Kidder 1,754 

Lamoure 6,048 

Logan 1,625 

McHenry 5,253 

Mcintosh 4,S18 

McLean 4,791 

Mercer 1,778 

Morton 8,069 

Nelson 7.316 

Oliver 990 

Pembina 17,869 

Pierce 4,765 

Ramsey 9,198 

Ransom 6,919 



Total. 



Richland 17,387 

Rolette 7,995 

Sargent 6,039 

Stark 7,621 

Steele 5,888 

Stutsman 9,143 

Tovraer 6,491 

Traill 13,107 

Walsh 20,288 

Ward 7,961 

Wells 8,310 

Williams 1,530 

Standing Rock 
Indian Reserva- 
tion 2,208 

319,146 



OHIO.— Area, 39,964 square miles. 



Adams 26,328 

Allen 47,976 

Ashland 21,184 

Ashtabula 51,448 

Athens ... 38,730 

I 

Auglaize 81,192 

Belmont 60,875 

Brown 28,237 

Butler 56,870 

Carroll 16,811 

Champaign.... 26,642 

Clark 58,939 

Clermont 31,610 

Clinton 24,202 

Columbiana... 68,590 

Coshocton 29,337 

Crawford 33,915 

Cuyahoga 439,120 

Darke 42,532 

Defiance 26,887 



Delaware 26,401 

Erie 37,650 

Fairfield 34,259 

Fayette 21,725 

Franklin 164,460 , 

I 

Fulton 22,801 ■ 

Gallia 27.918 

Geauga 14,744 

Greene 31,613 

Guernsey 34,4.25 : 

Hamilton 409,479 ': 

Hancock 41,993 

Hardin 31,1S7 

Harrison 20,486 

Henry 27,252 ; 

i 

Highland 30,982 ; 

Hocking 24,398 

Holmes 19,511 ; 

Huron 32,330 

Jackson 34,248 i 



Jefferson....... 44,867 

Knox 27,768 

Lake 21,680 

Lawrence 39,534 

Licking 47,070 

Logan 30,420 

Lorain 54,857 

Lucas.... 153,559 

Madison 20,590 

Mahoning 70,134 

Marion 28,678 

Medina 21.958 

Meigs 28,620 

Mercer 28,021 

Miami 43,105 

Monroe 27,031 

Montgomery . . .130,146 

Morgan 17,905 

Morrow 17,879 

Muskingum . . . 53,185 



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Noble.. 19,466 

Ottawa......... 22,213 

Paulding 27,528 

Perry 31,841 

Pickaway 27,016 

Pike 18,172 

Portage 29,246 

Preble 23,713 

Putnam 32,525 

Richland 44,289 



Roes 40,940 

Sandusky 34,311 

Scioto 40,981 

Seneca.... 41,163 

Shelby 24,625 

Stark 94,747 

Summit 71,715 

Trumbull 46,591 

Tuscarawas 53,751 

Union 22,342 



Van Wert...... 30,394 

Vinton 15,330 

Warren 25,584 

Washington.... 48,245 

Wayne 87,870 

Williams 24,953 

Wood 51,555 

Wyandot 21,125 



Total 4,157,545 



OKLAHOMA.— Area, 2,950 square miles. 



Beaver... 3,051 

Blaine 10,658 

Canadian 15,981 

Cleveland 16,388 

Custer 12,264 

Day 2,173 

Dewey 8,819 

Garfield 22,076 

Grant 17,273 



Greer 17,922 

Kay 22,530 

Kingfisher 18,501 

Lincoln 27,007 

Logan 26,538 

Noble 14,015 

Oklahoma 25,854 

Pawnee 12,366 



Payne 

Pottawatomie . . 
Roger Mills . . . . 

Washita 

Woods 

Woodward 

Indian Reserva- 
tion 



Total. . 



20,909 

26,412 

6,190 

15,001 

34,975 

7,469 

12,873 
889,245 



OREGON.— Area, 102,606 square miles. 



Baker 15,597 

Benton 6,706 

Clackamas 19,658 

Clatsop 12,765 

Columbia 6,237 

Coos 10,324 

Crook 3,964 

Curry 1,868 

Douglas 14,565 

Gilliam 3,201 

Grant 5,948 



Harney. ........ 2,598 

Jackson 13,698 

Josephine 7,517 

Klamath....... 3,970 

Lake.... 2,847 

Lane 19,604 

Lincoln 3,575 

Linn 18,603 

Malheur 4,203 

Marion 27,713 

Morrow 4,151 



Multomah 103,167 

Polk 9,923 

Sherman 3,477 

Tillamook 4,471 

Umatilla 18,049 

Union 16,070 

Wallowa 5,538 

Wasco 13,199 

Washington.... 14,467 

Wheeler 2,443 

Yamhill 13,420 



Total 413,536 



PBNNSYLVANIA.-Area, 46,000 square miles. 



Adams 34,496 

Allegheny 775,058 

Armstrong 52,551 

Beaver 56,432 

Bedford 39,468 

Berks 159,615 

Blair 85,099 

Bradford 59,403 

Bucks 71,190 

Butler 56,962 



Cambria 104,887 

Cameron 7,048 

Carbon 44,510 

Center 42,894 

Chester 95,695 

Clarion 34,283 

Clearfield 80,614 

Clinton 29,197 

Columbia 89,896 

Crawford 63,343 



Cumberland. . . . 50,344 

Dauphin 114,443 

Delaware 94,762 

Elk 32,903 

Erie 98,473 

Fayette 110,412 

Forest 11,039 

Franklin 54,902 

Fulton 9,924 

Greene 28,381 



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POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 



Huntingdon.... 34,650 

Indiana 42,556 

Jeffeison 59,113 

Juniata 16,054 

Lackawanna. . .193,831 

Lancaster 159,241 

Lawrence 57,042 

Lebanon 53,827 

Lehigh 93,893 

Luzerne 257,121 

Lycoming 75,663 

McKean 51,343 

Mercer 57,387 



Mifflin 23,160 

Monroe 21,161 

Montgomery . . . 138,995 

Montour 15,526 

Northampton... 99,687 
Northumberland 90,911 
Perry 26,263 

Philadelphia.. 1,293.697 

Pike 8,766 

Potter 30,621 

Schuylkill 172,927 

Snyder 17,304 



Somerset 49,461 

Sullivan 12,134 

Susquehanna... 40,043 

Tioga 49,086 

Union 17,592 

Venango 49,648 

Warren 38,946 

Washington.... 92,181 

Wayne 30,171 

Westmoreland. .160,175 

Wyoming 17,152 

York 116,418 



Total 6,802,115 



RHODE ISLAND.— Area, 1,306 square miles. 

Bristol 13,144 I Newport 82,599 I Washington. . . . 24,164 

Kent 29,976 | Providence .... 328,683 | 

Total 428,556 



SOUTH CAROLINA.— Area, 29,385 square miles. 



Abbeville 33,400 

Aiken 39,032 

Anderson 55,728 

Bamberg 17,296 

Barnwell 35,504 

Beaufort 35,495 

Berkeley 30,454 

Charleston 88,006 

Cherokee 21,359 

Chester 28,616 

Chesterfield.... 20,401 

Clarendon 28,184 

Colleton 33,452 

Darlmgton 32,388 



Dorchester 16,294 

Edgefield 25,478 

Fairfield 29,425 

Florence 28,474 

Georgetown.... 22,846 
Greenville 63,490 

Greenwood 28,343 

Hampton 23,738 

Horry 23,364 

Kershaw 24,696 

Lancaster 24,311 

Laurens 37,382 

Lexington 27,264 



Marion 35,181 

Marlboro 27,639 

Newberry 30,182 

Oconee 23,634 

Orangeburg 59,663 

Pickens 19,375 

Richland 45,589 

Saluda 18,966 

Spartanburg . . . 65,560 

Sumter 51,237 

Union 25,501 

Williamsburg.. 31,685 
York 41,684 



Total 1,340,316 



SOUTH DAKOTA.— Area, 78,932 square miles. 



Aurora 4,011 

Beadle 8,081 

Bonhomme .... 10.3V9 

Brookings 12,561 

Brown 15,286 

Brule 5,401 

Buffalo 1,790 

Butte 2,907 

Campbell 4,527 

Charles Mix.... 8,498 



Clark 6,942 

Clay 9,316 

Coddington.... 8,770 

Custer 2,728 

Davison 7,483 

Day 12,254 

Deuel 6,656 

Douglas 5,012 

Edmunds 4,936 

FallRiver 3,541 



Faulk 3,547 

Grant 9,103 

Gregory 2,211 

Hamlin 5,945 

Hand 4,525 

Hanson 4,947 

Hughes 3,684 

Hutchinson .... 11,897 

Hyde 1,492 

Jerauld 2,798 



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Kingsbury 9,866 

Lake 9,137 

Lawrence 17,897 

Lincoln 12,161 

Lyman 2,632 

McCook 8,689 

McPherson 6,827 

Marshall 5,942 

Meade 4,907 



Miner 5,864 

Minnehaha 23,926 

Moody.... 8,326 

Pennington 5,610 

Potter 2,988 

Roberts. 12,216 

Sanborn 4,644 

Spink 9,487 



Stanley 1,349 

Sully 1,715 

Turner 13,175 

Union 11,153 

Walworth 3,839 

Yankton 12,649 

Indian Reserva- 
tion 16,043 



Total ..401,570 



TENNESSEE.— Area, 45,500 square miles. 



Anderson 17,634 

Bedford 23,845 

Benton 11,888 

Bledsoe 6,626 

Blount 19,206 

Bradley 15,759 

Campbell 17,317 

Cannon 12,121 

Carroll 24,250 

Carter 16,688 

Cheatham 10,112 

Chester 9,896 

Claiborne 20,696 

Clay 8,421 

Cocke 19,153 

Cofeee 15,574 

Crockett 15,867 

Cumberland.... 8,311 

Davidson 122,815 

Decatur 10,439 

Dekalb 16,460 

Dickson 18,635 

Dyer 23,776 

Fayette 29,701 

Fentress 6,106 

Franklin 20,392 

Gibson 39,408 

Giles 33,035 

Grainger 15,512 

Greene 30,596 

Grundy 7,802 

Hamblen 12,728 



Hamilton 61,695 

Hancock 11,147 

Hardeman 22,976 

Hardin 19,246 

Hawkins 24,267 

Haywood 25,189 

Henderson 18,117 

Henry 24,208 

Hickman 16,367 

Houston 6,476 

Humphreys.... 13,398 

Jackson 15,039 

James 5,407 

Jefferson 18,590 

Johnson. ...... 10,589 

Knox 74,302 

Lake 7,368 

Lauderdale 21,971 

Lawrence 15,402 

Lewis 4,455 

Lincoln 26.304 

Loudon 10,838 

McMinn 19,163 

McNairy....... 17,760 

Macon 12,881 

Madison 36,333 

Marion 17,281 

Marshall 18,763 

Maury 42,703 

Meigs 7,491 

Monroe 18,585 

Montgomery.... 36,017 



Moore 5,706 

Morgan.... 9,587 

Obion 28.286 

Overton 13,853 

Perry 8,800 

Pickett 5,366 

Polk 11,357 

Putnam 16,890 

Rhea 14,318 

Roane 22,738 

Robertson 25,029 

Rutherford 33,543 

Scott 11,077 

Sequatchie 3,326 

Sevier 22,021 

Shelby 153,557 

Smith 19,026 

Stewart 15,224 

Sullivan 24,935 

Sumner 26,072 

Tipton 29,273 

Trousdale 6,004 

Unicoi 5,851 

Union 12,894 

VanBuren 3,126 

Warren 16,410 

Washington.... 22,604 

Wayne 12,936 

Weakley 32,546 

White 14,157 

Williamson .... 26,429 

Wilson 27,078 



Total 2,020,616 



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POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 



TEXAS.— Area, 237,504 square miles. 



Anderson 28,015 

Andrews 87 

Angelina 13,481 

Aransas 1,716 

Archer 2,508 

Armstrong 1,205 

Atascosa 7,143 

Austin 20,676 

Bailey 4 

Bandera 5,332 

Bastrop 26,845 

Baylor 3,052 

Bee 7,720 

Bell 45,535 

Bexar 69,422 

Blanco 4,703 

Borden 776 

Bosque 17,390 

Bowie 26,676 

Brazoria 14,861 

Brazos... 18,859 

Brewster 2,356 

Briscoe 1,253 

Brown 16,019 

Burleson 18,367 

Burnet 10,528 

Caldwell 21,765 

Calhoun 2,395 

Callahan 8.768 

Cameron 16,095 

Camp 9,146 

Carson 469 

Cass 22,841 

Castro 400 

Chambers 3,046 

Cherokee 25,154 

Childress 2,l;38 

Clay 9,231 

Cochran 25 

Coke 3,430 

Coleman 10,0T'<' 

Collin 50,087 

Collingsworth.. 1,233 

Colorado 22,203 

Comal 7,008 

Comanche 23,009 

Concho . 1,42T 

Cooke 2T,494 



Coryell 21,308 

Cottle 1,002 

Crane 51 

Crockett 1,591 

Crosby 788 

Dallam 146 

Dallas 82,726 

Dawson 37 

Deaf Smith 843 

Delta 15,249 

Denton 28,318 

Demtt 21,311 

Dickens 1,151 

Dimmit 1,106 

Donley. ........ 2,756 

Duval 8,483 

Eastland 18,971 

Ector 381 

Edwards 8,108 

Ellis 50,059 

El Paso 24,886 

Erath 29,966 

Falls 33,342 

Fannin 51,793 

Fayette 36,542 

Fisher 3,708 

Floyd 2,020 

Foard 1,568 

Fort Bend 16,538 

FrankHn 8,674 

Freestone 18-910 

Frio 4,200 

Gaines 55 

Galveston 44,116 

Garza 155 

Gillespie 8,229 

Glasscock 286 

Goliad 8,310 

Gonzales 28,882 

Grav 480 

Gravson 63,661 

Gregg 12,343 

Grimes 26,106 

Guadalupe 21,385 

Hale 1,680 

Hall 1,670 

Hamilton 13,520 



Hansford 167 

Hardeman 3,634 

Hardin 5,049 

Harris 63,786 

Harrison 31,878 

Hartley 377 

Haskell 2,637 

Hays 14,142 

Hemphill 815 

Henderson 19,970 

Hidalgo 6,837 

Hill 41,855 

Hockley. 44 

Hood 9,146 

Hopkins 27,950 

Houston 25,452 

Howard 2,528 

Hunt. 47,295 

Hutchinson 303 

Iron 848 

Jack 10,224 

Jackson 6,094 

Jasper 7,138 

Jetf Davis 1,150 

Jefferson 14,239 

Johnson 3.3,819 

Jones 7,053 

Karnes 8,681 

Kaufman 33,376 

Kendall 4,103 

Kent 899 

Kerr 4,980 

Kimble 2,503 

King 490 

Kinney 2,447 

Knox 2,322 

Lamar 48,627 

Lamb 31 

Lampasas 8,625 

Lasalie 2,303 

Lavaca 28,121 

Lee 14,595 

Leon 18,072 

Libeity 8,102 

Limestone 32,573 

Lipscomb 790 

Live Oak 2,268 

Llano 7,301 



CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES 



I3S 



Loving 33 

Lubbock 293 

Lynn 17 

McCulloch 3,960 

McLennan 59,TT2 

McMullen 1,024 

Madison 10,432 

Marion 10,754 

Martin 332 

Mason 5,573 

Matagorda 6,097 

Maverick 4,066 

Medina 7,783 

Menard 2,011 

Midland 1,741 

Milam 39,666 

Mills 7,851 

Mitchell 2,855 

Montague 24,800 

Montgomery... 17,067 

Moore 209 

Morris 8,220 

Motley 1,257 

Nacogdoches... 24,663 

Navarro 43,374 

Newton 7,282 

Nolan 2,611 

Nueces 10,439 

Ochiltree 267 

Oldham 849 

Orange 5,905 

Palo Pinto 12,291 

Panola 21,404 



Parker. . 
Parmer. . 
Pecos . . . 
Polk.... 



Potter 

Presidio... 

Rains 

Randall . , . 
Red River. 



Reeves 

Refugio 

Roberts 

Robertson. , 
Rockwall. . , 



Runnels 

Rusk , 

Sabine 

San Augustine. 
San Jacinto. .. 

San Patricio — 
San Saba.. ..... 

Schleicher 

Scurry 

Shackelford 



Shelby 

Sherman . . 

Smith 

Somervell.. 
Starr 



Stephens . . 
Sterling . . . 
Stonewall . 

Sutton 

Swisher... 



25,823 

84 

2,360 

14,447 

1,820 

3,673 

6,127 

963 



1,847 

1,641 

620 

31,480 

8,531 

5,379 

26,099 

6,894 

8,434 

10,277 

2,372 
7,569 
515 
4,158 
2,461 

20,452 

104 

37,370 

3,498 

11,469 



1,127 
2,183 
1,727 
1,227 



Tarrant 

Taylor 

Terry 

Throckmorton . 
Titus 



Tom Green. 

Travis 

Trinity. 

Tyler 

Upshur 



Upton 

Uvalde 

Valverde . . . 
Van Zandt.. 
Victoria 



Walker 

Waller 

Ward 

Washington. 
Webb 



Wharton 

Wheeler 

Wichita 

Wilbarger... 
Williamson. , 



Wilson. . . 
Winkler. , 

Wise 

Wood. . . . 



Yoakum. . 
1 oung . . . 
Zapata. . . 
Zavalla . . . 



52,376 

10,499 

48 

1.750 

12,292 

6,804 
47,886 
10.976 
11,899 
16,266 

48 
4,647 
5,263 
25,481 
13,678 

15,813 
14,246 
1,451 
32.931 
21,851 

16,942 
686 

5,806 
5,759 
88,072 

13,961 

60 

27,116 

21,048 

26 

6,540 

4,760 

792 



Total , 3,048,710 



UTAH.— Area, 84,476 square miles. 



Beaver 3,613 

Boxelder 10,009 

Cache 18,139 

Carbon 5,004 

Davis 7,996 

Emery 4,657 

Garfield 3,400 

Grand 1,149 

Iron. 3,546 



Juab 10,082 

Kane 1,811 

Millard 5,678 

Morgan 2,045 

Piute 1,954 

Rich 1,946 

Salt Lake 77,725 

San Juan 1,028 

Sanpete 16,313 



Sevier 8,451 

Summit 9,439 

Tooele 7,361 

Uinta 6,458 

Utah 32,456 

Wasatch 4,736 

Washington 4,612 

Wayne 1,907 

Weber 25,239 



Total 276,749 



136 



POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 



VERMONT.— Area, 10,212 square miles. 



Addison. 21,912 { 

Bennington 21,705 

Caledonia 24,381 ': 

Chittenden 39,600 

Essex 8,056 



FrankUn,. 30,198 i 

Grand Isle 4,462 ! 

Lamoille 12,289 i 

Orange 19,313 j 

Orleans 22,024 j 



Rutland 44,209 

Washington.... 36,607 

Windham 26,660 

Windsor 32,225 



Total 343,641 



VIRGINIA.— Area, 38,352 square miles. 



Accomac 32,570 . 

Albemarle 34,920 ' 

Alexandria 20,959 

Alleghany 16,330 

Amelia 9,037 

Amherst 17,864 

Appomattox . . . 9,662 ' 

Augusta 39,659 

Bath 5,595 ! 

Bedford 30,356 

Bland ... 5,497 1 

Botetourt 17,161 I 

Brunswick 18,217 \ 

Buchanan 9,692 

Buckingham. . . 15,266 

Campbell 42,147 

Cai'oline 16,709 

Carroll 19,303 

Charles City. . . . 5,040 

Charlotte 15,343 

Chesterfield.... 28,519 ' 

Clarke 7,927! 

Craig 4,293' 

Culpeper 14,123 

Cimiberland. . . . 8,996 

Dickenson 7,747 

Dinwiddle 15,374 

Elizabeth City. . 19,460 

Essex 9,701 

Fairfax 18,580 

Fauquier 23,374 

Floyd 15,388 

Fluvanna 9,050 

FrankUn 25,953 



Frederick 18,400 

Giles 10,793 

Gloucester 12,832 

Goochland 9,519 

Grayson 16,853 

Greene 6,214 

Greenesville .... 9, 758 

Halifax 37,197 

Hanover 17,618 

Henrico 115,112 

Henry 19,265 

Highland 5,647 

Isle of Wight.. 13,102 

James Citv 5,732 

King and Queen 9,265 
King George. .. 6,918 

KingWiUlam.. 8, 3 SO 

Lancaster 8,949 

Lee 19.856 

Loudoun 21.948 

Louisa 16,517 

! 

' Lunenburg 11,705 

Madison 10,216 

Mathews 8,239 

' Mecklenburg. . . 26,551 
Middlesex 8,220 

Montgomery... 19,196 

Nansemond 23,078 

Nelson 16.075 

New Kent 4,865 

Norfolk 114,831 

Northampton . . 13,770 
• Northumberland. 9,846 



Nottoway 12,366 

Orange 12,571 

Page 13,794 

Patrick 15,403 

Pittsylvania.... 63,414 

Powhatan 6,824 

Prince Edward. 15,045 
Prince George. . 7,752 

Princess Anne. 11,192 
Prince William. 11.112 

Pulaski 14,609 

Rappahannock. 8,843 
Richmond 7,088 

Roanoke 37,332 

Rockbridge 24,187 

Rockingham... 33,527 

Russell 18,031 

Scott 22,694 

Shenandoah.... 20,253 

Smvth 17,121 

Southampton . . 22,848 
Spottsylvania. . . 14,307 
Stafford 8,097 

Surry 8,469 

Sussex 12.082 

Tazewell 23,384 

Warren 8.837 

Warwick 15,524 

Washington.... 33,574 
Westmoreland. . 9,243 

Wise 19,653 

Wythe 20,437 

York 7,482 



Total 1,854,184 



CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES 



137 



WASHINGTON.— Area, 69,994 square miles. 



Adams 4,840 

Asotin 3,366 

Chehalis 15,124 

Chelan 3,931 

Clallam 5,603 

Clarke 13,419 

Columbia 7,128 

Cowlitz 7,877 

Douglas 4,926 

Ferry 4,562 

Franklin 486 

Garfield 3,918 



Island 1,870 

Jefferson 5,712 

King 110,053 

Kitsap 6,767 

Kittitas 9,704 

Klickitat 6,407 

Lewis 15,157 

Lincoln 11,969 

Mason 3,810 

Okanogan ...... 4, 689 

Pacific 5,983 

Pierce 55,515 



San Juan 2,928 

Skagit 14,272 

Skamania 1,688 

Snohomish 23,950 

Spokane 57,542 

Stevens 10,543 

Thurston 9,927 

Wahkiakum . . . 2,819 
Wallawalla .... 18,680 
Whatcom.... .. 24.116 

Whitman 25,360 

Yakima 13,462 



Total 518,103 



WEST VIRGINIA.— Area, 23,000 square miles. 



Barbour 14,198 

Berkeley 19,469 

Boone 8,194 

Braxton 18,904 

Brooke 7,219 

Cabell 29,252 

Calhoun 10,266 

Clay 8,248 

Doddridge 13,689 

Fayette 31,987 

Gilmer 11.762 

Grant 7,275 

Greenbrier..... 20,683 
Hampshire .... 11,806 
Hancock 6,693 

Hardy 8,449 

Harrison 27,690 

Jackson 22.987 

Jefferson 15,935 



Kanawha 54,696 

Lewis 16,980 

Lincoln 15,434 

Logan 6,955 

McDowell 18,747 

Marion 32,430 

Marshall 26,444 

Mason 24,142 

Mercer 23,023 

Mineral 12.883 

Mingo 11,359 

Monongalia.... 19,049 

Monroe 13,130 

Morgan 7,294 

Nicholas 11,403 

Ohio 48,024 

Pendleton 9,167 

Pleasants 9,345 



Pocahontas 8,572 

Preston 22,727 

Putnam 17,330 

Ealeigh 12,436 

Randolph 17,670 

Ritchie 18,901 

Roane 19,852 

Summers 16,265 

Taylor 14,978 

Tucker 13,433 

Tyler 18,252 

Upshur 14,696 

Wayne 23,619 

Webster 8,862 

Wetzel 22,880 

Wirt 10,284 

Wood 34,452 

Wyoming 8,380 



Total 958,800 



WISCONSIN.— Area, 53,924 square miles. 



Adams 9,141 

Ashland 20,176 

Barron 23,677 

Bayfield 14,392 

Brown 46,359 



Buffalo 16,765 

Burnett 7,478 

Calumet 17,078 

Chippewa 3.3,037 

Clark 25,848 



Columbia 31,121 

Crawford 17,286 

Dane 69,435 

Dodge 46,631 

Door 17.583 



138 



POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 



Douglas 36,335 

Duim 25,043 

Ean Claire 31,692 

Florence 3,197 

Fonddu Lac... 4T,5S9 

Forest 1,396 

Grant 38,SS1 

Green 2*2,719 

Green Lake.... 15.797 

Iowa 23,114 

Iron 6.616 

Jackson 17,466 

Jefferson 34,759 

Jnnean 20.629 

Kenosha 21,707 

Kewaunee 17.212 

La Crosse 42.997 

Lafayette .20.959 

Langlade 12,553 



Lincoln 16,269 

Manitowoc 42,261 

Marathon 43.256 

Marinette 30,S->2 

Marquette 10.5l9 

Milwaukee 330,017 

Monroe 2S.103 

Oconto 20.ST4 

Oneida S.S75 

Outagamie. ... 46.247 

Ozaukee 16,363 

Pepin 7,905 

Pierce 23.943 

Polk 17.801 

Portagre 29.453 

PriceT. 9,106 

Eacine 45.644 

Richland 19,4S3 



Rock 51.203 

St. Croix 26,830 

Sank 33.006 

Sawyer 3,593 

Shawano 27,475 

SheboTgan 50.345 

Tavlor 11,262 

Trempealeau... 23,114 

Vemon 28,351 

Vilas 4,929 

Walworth 29,259 

Washburn 5.521 

Washington. . , . 23,589 

Waukesha 35,229 

Waupaca 31.615 

Waushara 15.972 

Winnebago 58.225 

Wood 25,565 



Total, 



.2.069,043 



WYOMING.—Area, 97,883 square miles. 



Albany 13.0S4 ' 

Bighorn. 4.328 

Carbon 9,589 

Converse 3.3.37 

Crook 3.137 \ 



Fremont 5,357 

Johnson 2,361 

Laramie 20.151 ^ 

Natrona 1.785 | 

Sheridan 5.122 



Sweetwater 8,455 

Uinta 12,223 

Weston 3,203 

Yellowstone Park 369 



Total ... 92.531 



POPULATION OF CITIES 

OF THE 

UNITED STATES 

Having over 25,000 Inhabitants 
Census oj 1900 



New York, N. Y 3,437,202 

Chicago, 111 1,698,575 

Philadelphia, Pa. 1,293,697 

St. Louis, Mo 575,238 

Boston, Maes 560,892 

Baltimore, Md...., 508,957 

Cleveland, Ohio 381,768 

Buffalo, N.Y 352,387 

San Francisco, Cal 342,782 

Cincinnati, Ohio 325,902 

Pittsburg, Pa 321,616 

New Orleans, La 287,104 

Detroit, Mich 285,704 

Milwaukee, Wis 285,315 

Washington, D. C 278,718 

Newark, N.J 246,070 

Jersey City, N.J 206,433 

Louisville, Ky 204,731 

Minneapolis, Minn 202,718 

Providence, R. 1 175,597 

Indianapolis, Ind 169,164 

Kansas City, Mo 163,752 

St. Paul, Minn 163,065 

Rochester, N. Y 162,608 

Denver, Col 133,859 

Toledo, Ohio 131,822 

Allegheny, Pa 129, S96 

Columbus, Ohio 125,560 

Worcester, Mass 118,421 

Syracuse, N.Y 108,374 



New Haven, Conn 108,027 

Paterson, N. J 105,171 

Fall River, Mass 104,868 

St. Joseph, Mo 102,979 

Omaha, Neb 102,555 

Los Angeles, Cal 102,479 

Memphis, Tenn 102,320 

Scranton, Pa 102,026 

Lowell, Mass 94,969 

Albany, N.Y 94,151 

Cambridge, Mass 91,886 

Portland, Ore 90,426 

Atlanta, Ga 89,872 

Grand Rapids, Mich 87,565 

Dayton, Ohio 85,333 

Richmond, Va 85,050 

Nashville, Tenn 80,865 

Seattle, Wash 80,671 

Hartford, Conn 79,850 

Reading, Pa 78,961 

Wilmington, Del 76,508 

Camden, N. J 75,935 

Trenton, N. J 73,307 

Bridgeport, Conn 70,996 

Lynn, Mass 68,613 

Oakland, Cal 66,960 

Lawrence, Mass 62,559 

New Bedford, Mass 62,442 

Des Moines. Iowa 62,139 

Springfield, Mass 62,069 



139 



I40 



POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 



Somerville, Mass . 61,643 

Troy,N. Y 60,651 

Hoboken, N. J 59,364 

Evansville, Ind 59,007 

Manchester, N. H 56,987 

Utica.N.Y 56,383 

Peoria, 111 56,100 

Charleston, S. C 55,807 

Savannah, Ga 54,244 

Salt Lake City, Utah 53,531 

San Antonio, Tex 53,321 

Duluth,Minn 52,969 

Erie, Pa 52,733 

Elizabeth, N. J 52,130 

Wilkesbarre, Pa 51,721 

Kansas City, Kan 51,418 

Harrisburg, Pa 50,167 

Portland, Me 50,145 

Yonkers, N. Y 47,931 

Norfolk, Va 46,624 

Waterbury, Conn 45,859 

Holyoke, Mass 45,712 

Fort Wayne, Ind 45,115 

Youngstown, Ohio 44,885 

Houston, Tex 44,633 

Covington, Ky 42,938 

Akron, Ohio 42,728 

Dallas, Tex 42,638 

Saginaw, Mich 42,345 

Lancaster, Pa 41,459 

Lincoln, Neb 40,169 

Brockton, Mass 40,063 

Binghamton, N. Y 39,647 

Augusta, Ga 39,441 

Pawtucket, R. 1 39,231 

Altoona, Pa 88,973 

Wheeling, W. Va 38,578 

Mobile, Ala 38,469 

Birmingham, Ala 88,415 

Little Rock, Ark 38,307 

Springfield, Ohio 38,253 

Galveston, Tex 37,789 

Tacoma, Wash 37,714 

Haverhill, Mass 37,175 

Spokane, Wash 36,848 

Terre Haute, Ind '36,673 

Dubuque, Iowa 36.297 

Quincy, HI 36,252 

South Bend, Ind 35,999 

Salem, Mass 35,956 



Johnstown, Pa 35,986 

Elmira, N. Y 85,672 

Allentown, Pa 35,416 

Davenport, Iowa 35,254 

McKeesport, Pa 34,227 

Springfield, 111. 34,159 

Chelsea, Mass 34,072 

Chester, Pa 33,988 

York, Pa 33,708 

Maiden, Mass 33,664 

Topeka, Kan 33,608 

Newton, Mass 33,587 

Sioux City, Iowa 33,111 

Bayonne, N. J 32,722 

Knoxville, Tenn 32,637 

Chattanooga, Tenn 32,490 

Schenectady, N. Y 31,682 

Fitchburg, Mass 81,531 

Superior, Wis 31,091 

Rockford, 111 31,051 

Taunton, Mass 31,036 

Canton, Ohio 30,667 

Butte, Mont 30,470 

Montgomery, Ala 80,346 

Auburn, N. Y 30,345 

East St. Louis, 111 29,655 

Joliet, 111 29,353 

Sacramento, Cal 29,282 

Racine, Wis 29,102 

La Crosse, Wis 28,895 

Williamsport, Pa 28,757 

Jacksonville, Fla 28,429 

Newcastle, Pa 28,339 

Newport, Ky 28,301 

Oshkosh, Wis 28,284 

Woonsocket, R.I 28,204 

Pueblo, Col 28,157 

Atlantic City, N. J 27,838 

Passaic, N. J 27,777 

Bay City, Mich 27,628 

Fort Worth, Tex 26,688 

Lexington, Ky . . . 26,369 

Gloucester, Mass 26,121 

South Omaha, Neb 26,001 

New Britain, Conn 25,998 

Council Bluffs, Iowa 25,802 

Cedar Rapids, Iowa 25,656 

Easton, Pa 25,238 

Jackson, Mich 25,180 



POPULATION, NUMBER OF COUNTIES, FARMS, 
AND FAMILIES, IN EACH STATE 

(Compiled from the Census Bulletin^ 1900^ and the Cen- 
sus of 1890) 



States and 
Territories. 


Popula- 
tion, 

1900. 


Coun- 
ties, 
1900. 


Number of 
Farms, 

1890. 


Number of 
Families, 

1890. 


Maine. . . 


694,466 

411,588 

343,641 

2,805,346 

428,556 

908,355 

7,268,012 

1,883,669 

6,302,115 


16 
10 
14 
14 
5 

61 

21 
67 


62,013 
29.151 
32,573 
34,374 
5,500 
26,350 

226,223 
30,828 

211.557 


150,355 
87,348 
75,869 

479,790 


New Hampshire 

Vermont 

Massachusetts 


Rhode Island 


75,010 


Connecticut... 


165,890 


New York 


1,308,015 
808,339 


New Jersey. . 


Pennsylvania. 


1,061,626 


N. Atlantic Division. 
Delaware 


21,045,748 

184,735 
1,190,050 

278,718 
1,854,184 

958,800 
1,893,810 
1,340,316 
2,216,331 

528,542 


216 

3 
24 

100 
55 
97 
41 

137 
45 


658,569 

9,381 

40,798 

382 

127,600 

72,773 

178,359 

115,008 

171,071 

34,228 


3,712,242 

34,578 


Maryland 


202,179 

43,967 

304,673 


District of Columbia . . 
Virginia 


West Virginia 


140,359 
300,952 
222,941 

3fi9,059 


North Carolina 

South Carolina 

Georgia 


Florida 


80,059 




S. Atlantic Division. 
Ohio 


10,445,486 

4,157,545 
2,516,462 
4,821.550 

2,420,982 
2,0(59,042 


533 

88 
92 

102 

85 
70 


649,600 

251,430 
198,167 
240,681 
172,344 
146,409 


1,687,767 

785,291 
467,146 
778,015 
455,004 
335,456 


Indiana 

Illinois 

Michigan 


Wisconsin 





141 



142 



POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 




TABLE OF OCCUPATIONS 

Census of 1890 



All Occupations (persons engaged in) 22,735,661 



'^' Agriculture, Fisheries, and Mining, total, 9,013,336 

Agricultural laborers 3,004,061 

Apiarists 1,773 

Dairymen and dairywomen 17,895 

Farmers, planters, and overseers. . . . , 5,281,557 

Fishermen and oystermen 60,162 

Gardeners, florists, nurserymen, and vine growers 72,601 

Lumbermen and raftsmen 65,866 

Miners (coal) 208,545 

Miners (not otherwise specified) , 141,047 

Quarrymen 37,656 

Stock raisers, herders, and drovers 70,729 

Wood choppers 33,697 

Other agricultural pursuits 17,747 



Professional Service, 944,383 

Actors 9,728 

Architects 8,070 

Artists and teachers of art 22,496 

Authors and literary and scientific persons 6,714 

Chemists, assayers, and metallurgists 4,503 

Clergymen 88,203 

Dentists 17,498 

Designers, draughtsmen, and inventors 9,391 

Engmeers (civiK mechanical, electrical, and mining and sur- 
veyors) , 43,239 

Journahsts 21,849 

Lawyers ^,630 

Musicians and teachers of music 62,155 

Officers of the United States army and navy 2,926 

Officials (Government) 79,664 

Physicians and surgeons 104,805 

Professors in colleges and universities 5,392 

Teachers 341,952 

Theatrical managers, showmen, etc 18,055 

Veterinary surgeons 6,494 

Other professional service 1,569 

143 



144 POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 

Domestic and Personal Service, 4,360,577 

Barbers and hairdressers 84,982 

Bartenders ^ 55,606 

Boarding and lodging house keepers , 44,349 

Engineers and firemen (not locomotive) 139,765 

Hotel keepers 44.076 

Housekeepers and stewards 92,036 

Hunters, trappers, guides, and scouts 2,534 

Janitors 21,556 

Laborers (not specified) 1,913,373 

Launderers and laundresses ; 248,462 

Nurses and midwives 47,586 

Restaurant keepers 19,283 

Saloon keepers 71,385 

Servants 1,454,791 

Sextons , 4, 982 

Soldiers, sailors, and marines (United States) 27,819 

Watchmen, policemen, and detectives 74,629 

Other domestic and personal service. 13,063 



Trade and Transportation, 3,326,122 

Agents (claim, commission, real estate, insurance, etc.) and 

collectors 174,582 

Auctioneers 3,205 

Bankers and brokers (money and stocks) 30,008 

Boatmen and canalmen 16,716 

Bookkeepers and accountants 159,574 

Brokers (commercial) 5,960 

Clerks and copyists 557^358 

Commercial travellers 55,691 

Draymen, hackmen, teamsters, etc 868,499 

Foremen and overseers 36,084 

Hostlers 54,036 

Hucksters and pedlers 69,083 

Livery stable keepers 26,757 

Locomotive engineers and firemen 79,468 

Merchants and dealers in drugs and chemicals (retail) 46,375 

Merchants and dealers in drygoods (retail) 42,527 

Merchants and dealers in groceries (retail) 114,997 

Merchants and dealers in vrines and liquors (retail) 10,078 

Merchants and dealers in wines and liquors (wholesale) 8,643 

Merchants and dealers not specified (retail) 446,262 

Merchants and dealers (wholesale), importers and shipping 

merchants 27,443 

Messengers, and errand and office boys 51,355 

Newspaper carriers and newsboys 5,288 

Officials of banks and insurance, trade, transportation, trust 

and other companies 39,900 

Packers and shippers — 24,946 

Pilots 4,269 

Porters and helpers (in stores and warehouses) 24,356 

Sailors 55,899 

Salesmen and saleswomen 264.394 

Steam railroad employes (not otherwise specified) 382,750 

Stenographers and typewriters 33,418 



TABLE OF OCCUPATIONS 145 

Trade and Thah^sfo-rtatioi^.— Continued. 

Street railway employes 37,434 

Telephone and telegraph operators 52,214 

Telephone and telegraph linemen and electric light and power 

company employes 11,134 

Undertakers 9,891 

Weighers, gangers, and measurers 3,860 

Other persons m trade and transportation 3,883 



Manufacturing and Mechanical Industries, 5,091,293 

Agricultural implement makers (not otherwise classified) 3,755 

Apprentices (blacksmiths') 4,244 

Apprentices (boot and shoe makers') 1,031 

Apprentices (carpenters and joiners') 6,760 

Apprentices (carriage and wagon makers') 852 

Apprentices (dressmakers') 4,340 

Apprentices (leather curriers', etc.) 421 

Apprentices (machinists') 9,738 

Apprentices (masons') 1,927 

Apprentices (milliners') 1,204 

Apprentices (painters') 2,321 

Apprentices (plumbers') 4,624 

Apprentices (printers') 4,635 

Apprentices (tailors') 2,625 

Apprentices (tinsmiths') 2,037 

Apprentices (not otherwise specified) 35,698 

Artificial flower makers 3,046 

Bakers .« 60,197 

Basket makers 5,225 

Blacksmiths 205,337 

Bleachers, dyers, and scourers 14,210 

Bone and ivory workers 1,691 

Bookbinders 23,858 

Boot and shoe makers and repairers 213,544 

Bottlers and mineral and soda-water makers 7,230 

Box makers (paper) 17,757 

Box makers (wood) 10,883 

Brass workers (not otherwise specified) 17,265 

Brewers and maltsters 20,362 

Brick and tile makers and terra cotta workers 60,214 

Britannia workers 904 

Broom and brush makers 10,115 

Builders and contractors , 45,988 

Butchers ,. 105,456 

Butter and cheese makers 11,211 

Button makers 2,601 

Cabinet makers 35,915 

Candle, soap, and tallow makers 3,450 

Carpenters and joiners 611,482 

Carpet makers 22,302 

Carriage and wagon makers (not otherwise classified) 34,538 

Charcoal, coke, and lime burners 8,704 

Chemical works employes 3,628 

Clock and watch makers and repairers 25,252 

Compositors 30,060 

Confectioners , 23,251 



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POINTERS FOR PATENTEES 



Manufactubing and Mechanical Industeies.— Cowfint^^d. 

Coopers 47,486 

Cooper workers 8,384 

Corset makers 6,533 

Cotton mill operatives 173,142 

Distillers and rectifiers 3,314 

Door, sash, and blind makers , 5,041 

Dressmakers 889,164 

Electroplaters 9,756 

Electrotypers and stereotjrpers 1,471 

Engravers 8,320 

Fertilizer makers 732 

Fish carers and packers 1,279 

Gas works employes - 5,224 

Glass workers 34,382 

Glove makers 6,416 

Go'd and silver workers 20,263 

Gunsmiths, locksmiths, and bell hangers 9,158 

Hair workers 1,254 

Harness and saddle makers and repairers 43,480 

Hat and cap makers 24,013 

Hosiery and knitting mill operatives 29,555 

Iron and steel workers 144,921 

Lace and embroidery makers 5,256 

Lead and zinc workers 4,616 

Leather cniTiers. dressers, finishers, and tanners 39,832 

Machinists 177,090 

Manufacturers and officials of mannfactnrlng companies 101,610 

Marble and stone catters 61,070 

Masons (brick and stone) 158,918 

Meat and fruit packers, canners, and preservers 5,830 

Mechanics (not otherwise specified) 15,485 

Metal workers (not other\vise specified) 16,694 

Mil and factory operatives (not specified) 93,596 

MiQers (floui- and grist) 52,841 

IVIilliners 60,842 

Model and pattern makers 10,800 

Moulders 66,2S9 

Musical instrument makers (not otherwise specified) 652 

Nail and tack makers 4,583 

Oil well employes 9,147 

Oil works employes 5^624 

Painters, glaziers, and vamishers 219,912 

Paper hangers 12,369 

Paper mill operatives 27,817 

Photographers 20,840 

Piano and organ makers and tuners 14.683 

Plasterers 39,002 

Plumbers and gas and steam fitters 56,607 

Potters 14,928 

Powder and cartridge makers 1,385 

Printers, lithographers, and pressmen 86,893 

Print works operatives 6,701 

Publishers of books, maps, and newspapers 6,254 

Roofers and slaters 7,04;3 

Rope and cordage makers ■ 8,001 

Rubber factory operatives 16,162 

Sail, awning, and tent makers 3,257 

Salt works employes 1,765 

Saw and planing mill employes 133,637 



TABLE OF OCCUPATIONS I47 



Manufacturing and Mechanical Industries.— Con<m^^«(i. 

Seamstresses 150,044 

Sewing machine makers (not otherwise classified) 880 

Sewing machine operators 7,126 

Ship and boat builders 22,951 

Shirt, collar, and cuff makers 21,097 

Silk mill operatives 34,855 

Starch makers 746 

Steam boiler makers 21,339 

Stove, furnace, and grate makers 8,932 

Straw workers 3,666 

Sugar makers and refiners 2,616 

Tailors and tailoresses 185,400 

Tinners and tinware makers 55,488 

Tobacco and cigar operatives 111,385 

Tools and cutlery (not otherwise specified) 17,985 

Trunk, valise, leather case, and pocket-book makers 6,297 

Umbrella and parasol makers 3,403 

Upholsterers 26,666 

Well borers 4,854 

Wheelwrights 12,856 

Whitewashers 3.996 

Wire workers 12,319 

Wood workers (not otherwise specified) 67,360 

Woolen mill operatives 84,109 

Other persons in manufacturing and mechanical industries 76,714 



INDEX 



PAGE 

A Better Plan 22 

About Advertising 46 

'• Canadian Patents 81 

" Getting Up Circulars 51 

Abstract of Decisions 87 

Advertisements, How to Write 47 

Advice. Foreign Patents 79 

Agreement, Form of 22 

Assignee, Grantee, and Licensee Defined 100 

Assigning an Undivided Interest 59 

Assignments 87 

" Conditional 95 

Basis for Estimation 32 

Business Capacity of the Inventor 16 

Canadian Cities, Population of 86 

Patents, About 61 

Selling 84 

Capital, Securing 20 

Circulars 50 

About Getting Up 51 

Cities ID the United States, Population of 139 

Classes of Rights, Dividing a Patent into 59 

Commercial Value 31 

Companies, Forming, and Manufacturing 67 

Stock in Stock 36 

" To Organize Stock 69 

Compulsory Manuf acttire. Law of 79 

Conditional Assignments 95 

Copies of Patents, How to Secure 51 

Correspondence as a Means of Bringing Patents Before Interested 

Parties 48 

Counties in Each State, Number of, 1900 141 

148 



INDEX 149 

PAGE 

Danger in an Undivided Interest 20 

Decisions, Abstract of 87 

" Assignments 87 

*' Licenses 90 

" Patent Title 92 

** Territorial Grants 84 

Demand for Inventions of Merit 9 

Dividing Patents into Classes of Eights , 59 

Do Foreign Patents Pay ? 73 

Drawings, Working 54 

Estimating Prices for State Rights 38 

Estimation, Basis for . , 32 

Excessive Taxes on Foreign Patents 78 

Exhibit of Inventions 25 

Farms in Each State, Number of 141 

Families in Each State, Number of 141 

First Impressions All-important 53 

Foreign Patents 73 

" " Advice 79 

Do They Pay? 73 

" " Excessive Taxes on , 78 

'* '• The Introducer 75 

Their Selling Value 75 

" Valid, When Obtainable 76 

Form, Assignment of an Undivided Interest 104 

" of Entire Interest 102 

*' Grant of a Territorial Interest , 105 

*• License, Exclusive With Royalty 110 

** " Non-exclusive With Royalty 108 

" " Shop-right 107 

*' of Agreement (Securing Capital) 22 

Forming Companies, and Manufacturing 67 

Forms, Legal, of Value to Patentees 100 

General Rules for Valuation 33 

Grantee , 94 

Granting Licenses 62 

Grants, Territorial 89 

How Rating for Royalty Is Figured 33 

" to Arrive at the Value of a Patent 30 

*' " Conduct the Sale of Patents 41, 55 

*' " Correspond With Manufacturers 49 

" " Secure Copies of Patents 51 

44 « Write an Advertisement 47 



IJO INDEX 

TABU 

Illustrations for Circulars 50 

In Case the Patentee Cannot Undertake Selling 44 

Income from Inventions 13 

Independence Tlirough Successful Invention 13 

Industrial Progress Based upon Patent System 11 

International Convention, The 77 

Introducer, The, Foreign Patents 75 

Inventions as a Poor Man's Opportunity 18 

•' Exhibitof 25 

•' Incomefrom 18 

" of Merit, Demand for 9 

»• Perfecting 24 

" Value of Record of 26 

Inventor, Business Capacity of the 16 

Law of Compulsory Manufacture 79 

•' The Language of 101 

Laws, State, on Selling Patents 96 

Legal Forms of Value to Patentees 100 

Licensee 94 

Licenses, Decisions 90 

Granting 62 

Manufacturers, How to Correspond With 49 

Manufacturing, and Forming Companies 67 

Map of the United States 113 

Methods of Selling Patents 45 

Models, Value of 53 

Money in Patents 16 

Monopoly in Patents 10 

Mortgages 94 

Must Be Recorded (Transfer of Patents) 94 

Newspaper Notoriety 27 

Number of Counties in Each State, 1900 141 

" '•' Farms in Each State 141 

•• " Families in Each State 141 

Occupations, Table of 143 

Official Census of the United States for 1900 115 

Organizing Stock Companies 68 

Outright Assignments 68 

Patent, How to Arrive at the Value of a 30 

" Selling Agencies 41 

• ' System, Industrial Progress Based upon 11 

*' Title 87 



INDEX 151 

PAGE 

Patents, Canadian 81 

*♦ Copies, How to Secure 51 

•' Foreign 78 

*• How to Conduct the Sale of 41, 55 

** Money in 15 

*' Monopoly in 10 

*• Prejudice against 26 

•* State Laws on 96 

** Unprofitable 14 

Pecuniary Value SO 

Perfecting Inventions 24 

Personal Influence, Value of 56 

*' Solicitation Advisable 66 

Pigeon-holing Patents 66 

Placing upon Royalty 64 

Population of Canadian Cities 86 

•• Cities of the United States, 1900 139 

'* Counties of Each State, 1900 114 

♦• States, 1900 141 

Prejudice against Patents 26 

Prices of Territorial Rights 37 

Printed Copies of Patents, Uses of 52 

Recorded, Must Be (Transfer of Patents) 94 

Royalty, How Rating for, Is Figured 85 

" Placing upon 64 

Rules for Valuation, General 33 

" of Practice 93 

•• " •* Assignees 94 

•* ** *• Assignments 93 

•* *• ** Conditional Assignments 96 

•• *' ** Licensees 94 

*• " Grantees 94 

♦' *• *• Mortgages 94 

'* " " Must Be Recorded 94 

Sale of Patents, How to Conduct 41, 56 

Securing Capital ., 20 

Selling Agencies, Patent 41 

" Agent, The Patentee the Best 43 

" by Territorial Rights 61 

•• Canadian Patents 84 

** In Case Patentee Cannot Undertake the 44 

•• Outright 58 

** Patents, Methods of 46 



152 INDEX 



PAGE 

Selling Value, Foreign Patents 75 

Solicitation, Personal, Advisable 56 

State Laws on Selling Patents 96 

" Rights, Table for Estimating Prices of 38 

Statistics and Tables 115 

Stock Companies, To Organize 68 

" in Stock Companies 36 

" Squeezed," To Avoid Being 25 

Table of Occupations 143 

Tables, Statistics and 115 

*' Valuation 37 

Taxes, Excessive, on Foreign Patents , 78 

Territorial Grants 89 

' ' Rights, Prices for 37 

••' Selling by 61 

The International Convention 77 

" Introducer, Foreign Patents 75 

' ' Language of Law 100 

'* Patentee the Best Selling Agent 43 

Their Selling Value, Foreign Patents 75 

Title, Patent 92 

To Avoid Being '• Squeezed " 25 

To Organize Stock Companies 68 

Trading as a Last Resort 71 

Uses of Printed Copies (Patents) 52 

Undivided Interest, Assig-ning an 59 

" " Dangers in an. 20 

United States, Map of the 113 

" " Population of Cities of the 139 

" •« " by Counties, 1900 115 

Unprofitable Patents 14 

Valuation, General Rules for 33 

Tables 37 

Value, Commercial 31 

of Models 53 

" " Patent, How to Arrive at the 30 

" " Personal Influence 56 

" '• Record of Invention 26 

" Pecuniary 30 

When Only Valid Foreign Patents Are Obtainable 71 

Working Drawings 54 



ApT-io i©m 



MAR 23 1901 



